The national drug policy is a comprehensive framework, which mainly consists of essential drugs, reasonable prices, financial support, supply system, quality assurance, rational drug use research, human resource development, monitoring and evaluation, etc. Each component is They all play an important role in achieving the overall policy goals. Each component not only plays a role in corresponding to a specific goal, but can also serve together to achieve multiple goals.

1. Essential medicines

Essential medicines are medicines that can meet the needs of the majority of the population and are affordable to individuals and society. The selection of essential drugs fully considers the optimal combination of drug safety, effectiveness, and economy. It not only provides a reasonable basis for purchasing drugs at the national level, but also provides a basis for establishing drugs at different levels of the health care system. A reasonable basis for demand.

2. Reasonable price

Affordable price is a prerequisite for ensuring the availability of drugs. It is necessary to keep the price of drugs at a level that can be afforded by most people. Under the guidance of national drug policies, we will coordinate the interests of multiple parties and establish a standardized drug pricing system. Different measures should be taken for different drugs to ensure the affordability of drug prices:

(1) Increase the prices of all drugs by reducing drug tax rates, import tariffs, reducing drug circulation price differences, and adjusting national price policies affordability.

(2) Generic drugs, through encouraging generic policies, generic drug substitution, etc., fully promote competition between products to improve the affordability of drug prices.

(3) Patented drugs, improve the affordability of drugs through price negotiation, price information and price competition. In addition, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) can also be fully utilized, such as compulsory licensing and parallel imports, to improve the affordability of drug prices.

3. Financial support

Financial support for drugs is not only an important factor in ensuring drug availability, but is also directly related to the sustainability of the overall national drug policy framework. The state should make full use of the essential medicine policy and advocate "improving efficiency and reducing waste"; increase government financial support for essential medicines, key diseases, poor people and people in need; increase the coverage of health insurance and the availability of medicines.

4. Supply system

Implement drug procurement standards, formulate wholesale distribution strategies, improve drug supply in emergencies, improve the drug supply system, and improve the availability of drugs.

5. Quality Assurance

The drug supervision and quality assurance system is the fundamental guarantee for the quality of drugs in the national drug policy objectives. It is also the basic guarantee for the availability and rational use of drugs. An efficient drug management agency should be established and corresponding regulations should be formulated to standardize the supervision of the entire process of drug research, production, circulation, and use. Its main responsibilities are to ensure the quality of drugs, ensure drug safety, and monitor product information (including instructions). , drug advertising) authenticity and accuracy shall be monitored.

6. Rational drug use

As the goal and content of national drug policy, rational drug use plays an extremely important role in the implementation of national drug policy. Improving the level of rational drug use is an important step in establishing national drug policy. one of the main purposes.