How to assure access of essential RMNCH medicines by looking at policy and systems factors: an analysis of countdown to 2015 countries

Table 4 Average percentages for 8 policy and system indicators for 15 RMNCH lifesaving commodities

Policy system factor	Average % in descending order^a
In standard treatment guidelines	96
On essential medicines list	86
On both essential medicines list and standard treatment guidelines	86
Procured centrally in previous year	86
Policy to provide free of charge to patients	76
At least one product registered by the national drug authority	72
No stock-outs at central medical store in previous 3 years	66
Tracked by logistics management information system	63

^aMeans of the average percentages presented in Fig. 2 came from different sample sizes and were rounded to whole numbers

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