Monitoring medicines use to support national medicines policy development and implementation in the Asia Pacific region

Abstract

Critical to the successful implementation of a national medicines strategy is evaluationof the policy and ongoing monitoring of medicine use. Methods for monitoringmedicines use within countries vary depending on the country and its stage ofmedicines policy development and implementation. In this paper, we provide fourcase studies on monitoring medicines use to support national medicines policydevelopment and implementation. Cases come from Bhutan, Indonesia, Malaysiaand the Republic of Korea.