- Medicines: Benefits and Risks
- 3 ECTS
- From 24 November to 5 December 2003
Coordinator:
Francisco Morales. Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. Universitat de València
Objectives:
The course aims to explain the positive and negative consequences of medicines to the welfare of the population. The higher difficulty to develop and sell new medicines as well as the necessity to carry out long-term studies on their effects will be analysed. The course will explain the different grades in which populations have access to medicines, depending on the area of the planet. Additionally, the use of natural products as medicines and the influence of culture in the use of medicines will be addressed. The course will inform of the vast inequalities that exist in the access to medicines among population of different global areas.
Programme:
- Historical development of pharmacological therapy
- Contribution of medicines to healthcare
- From molecule to medicine
- Assessment of the positive effects of medicines
- Assessment of medicine safety
- Rational use of medicines and self-medication.
- The use of natural products as medicines. Phytotherapy
- Ethno-pharmacology
- Economic aspects of using medicines
- Pharmaceutical market and legal regulation of medicines.
Places: 40T
imetable: Monday to Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the head office of the Cañada Blanch Foundation, Jorge Juan 4, Valencia.
