Quantification Addendum: International Medical Guide for ships (3rd edition)

The third edition of the International Medical Quide for Ships was published by the World Health Organization, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization and the International Maritime Organization in 2007. The Guide provides advice to help promote and protect the health of seafarers. An important section in the Guide is the 'Ship's Medicine Chest'. This section provides a recommended list of medicines that ships at sea should carry, as well as indications and dosing. The second edition of the Guide, published in 1988, also provided suggested quantities of medicines that ships of various size should hold; recommended quantities were not included in the third edition. The University of Newcastle WHO Collaborating Centre for Training in Pharmaco-economics and Rational Pharmacotherapy was commissioned to develop a list of recommended quantities of medicines listed in the third edition of the International Medical Quide for Ships.

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1. Background
2. Scope of project
3. Methods

3.1 Mapping the current medicines list to the quantities in
the previous edition of the International Medical Guide for Ships
3.2 Literature review and review of maritime websites
3.3 Interviews with local maritime authorities and medicine suppliers
4. Results
4.1 Mapping the current medicines list to the quantities in the second edition of the Guide
4.2 Literature review and review of maritime websites
4.3 Interviews with local maritime authorities and medicine suppliers
5. Proposed quantities of medicines for the third edition of the Guide
5.1 Assumptions and definitions
5.2 Details of the proposed quantities

Annex 1: Mapping of the medicines in the third edition of the Guide to the quantities in the second edition
Annex 2: Mapping of the medicines in the third edition of the Guide to the quantities recommended in the Australian and UK guidelines for ships
Annex 3: Recommended quantities of medicines for the third edition of the International Medical Guide for Ships

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