Information dissemination

Information dissemination Published distributed to physicians Report to MOH, DRA and industry Reported to Drug Council Published in newsletters Published in Drug Information Bulletin Advised to DCA Feedback sent to registration holders Info, to prescribers Information disseminated in local workshops y DRA is informed Published in CENAVIF bulletin Published in quarterly Drugs and Toxicology Bulletin... 

Cuba stands out as the only country in this group that permits neither dmg advertising nor dmg promotion. Instead, pharmaceutical products are distributed and product information disseminated within the Ifamewoik of the centralized State-mn management system. Misinformation for commercial purposes is therefore not an issue in Cuba. In all the other survey countries, both the content and the conduct of dmg advertising and promotion are regulated. The basis of such controls is found in dmg legislation. 

The Promochem Group was the first international specialist supplier of certified reference materials (CRMs) and pharmaceutical reference substances used in environmental, medical and trace element analysis. Their experience provides a viewpoint that echoes, reinforces and expands on many of the trends discussed above (Jenks 1997). From the middle of the 1980 s, sales of CRM by Promochem increased between 10 % and 20 % annually, depending on the market sector and application. Since then National and International Metrology Institutes, such as the now privatized U.K. Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC), the European and U.S. Pharmacopoeias, the E.U. IRMM and others have recognized that efficient distribution of RMs, backed by available technical support, is as important as production and certification. Thus, they have moved to spread their influence outside their national origins. The Web and e-commerce will continue to grow as major facilitators of better information dissemination and supply of CRMs. 

NCI National Cancer Institute. NCI, part of the National Institutes of Health of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, is the federal government s principal agency for cancer research. NCI conducts, coordinates, and funds cancer research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer. Access the NCI Web site at http //cancer.gov. [NIH]... 

Improve the infrastructure for problem detection and product information dissemination, to strengthen consumer protection and take timely, effective risk management actions with all FDA-regulated products. 

In Chapter 2 Reinhardt suggests establishing nonproht PharmacoEco-nomics Research Institutes (PERIs), as opposed to government-run organizations, to produce systematic information on the relative cost effectiveness of rival pharmaceutical products. Individual countries may beneht from information, whether or not they contribute to the information dissemination process. For this reason, the feasibility of multicountry efforts is worth exploring. 

Consumers are not willing to accept foreign and unknown substances in their food except if they are useful, they are savory, and will increase the nutritional value or taste of food. For instance, the presence of antibiotic residues in milk reduces the desire to drink it, although these agents are harmless in the levels detected. Public opinion sometimes is not correct. It is not necessary to explain the reason it may depend on public information disseminated by some... 

Media, for the much needed information dissemination and communication advocacy. 

Many of the instruments presented above have their main focus on information dissemination and education of the public. Respecting the citizens right to know and giving access to information is a basic prerequisite for community involvement but as a one-way relation it is not enough to fully integrate the civil society in policy processes. Additional measures are needed to make sure that each citizen can have a say in public decision-making. 

Based on your knowledge of special needs planning, what questions would you ask about the region s readiness to deal with special needs populations, for example, availability of interpreters, accessible formats for information dissemination, and so forth ... 

As the debate over off-label information dissemination continues, the FDA has other legal remedies to pursue if it believes that a company is issuing information that could lead to mis-prescribing or jeopardize the health of patients. The FDA has said it can and will invoke a section of its regulations that prohibit the dissemination of information that is false or misleading. ... 

A state-of-the-art review of biomass CHP systems should be prepared to aid in information dissemination and new program development. 

Ordinary member associations and their member companies benefit from lOFI membership via (1) participation in the work of the lOFI Board and of the ion committees, (2) receiving information disseminated by lOFI, covering a wide range of critical subjects relevant to flavor use, safety, and operations,... 

Following the reauthorization of Superfund in 1986 under the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), the agency received major new mandates. SARA broadened ATSDR s responsibilities in the areas of public health assessments, establishment and maintenance of toxicological databases information dissemination, and medical education new groups within ATSDR were organized to carry out the new tasks. By August 1989, the agency had assumed its current structure. 

The lack of information dissemination within industry sectors is another barrier to the adoption of safer substitutes. A recent study details how cement manufacturers in Scandinavia solved the problem of skin contact with cement containing hexava-lent chromium back in the 1980s, but the information was not diffused to other European manufacturers, resulting in needless worker exposure (UBA, 2003). 

Information disseminated through media that also contain scientific or other editorial materials shall be so presented that it will be readily recognised as a marketing activity. 

The information disseminated must be scientifically balanced however, it must also be fair balanced. This refers to the inclusion of negative as well as positive information. If the indications of a drug are being described, so too must the contraindications be described if the efficacy is described, so too must the safety of the product. 

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