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essential medicine

drug that satisfies the health care needs of the majority of the population according to WHO
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essential medicine

Summary

essential medicine is a drug class[1]. It draws 23 Wikipedia views per month (drug_class category, ranking #54 of 81).[2]

Key Facts

  • essential medicine's instance of is recorded as drug class[3].
  • essential medicine's subclass of is recorded as medication[4].
  • essential medicine's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D018954[5].
  • essential medicine's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09qqkx[6].
  • essential medicine's MeSH tree code is recorded as D26.355[7].
  • essential medicine's topic's main category is recorded as Category:World Health Organization essential medicines[8].
  • essential medicine's facet of is recorded as World Health Organization[9].
  • essential medicine's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0282568[10].
  • essential medicine's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as essential-drugs[11].
  • essential medicine's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12].
  • essential medicine's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777424817[13].
  • essential medicine's Namuwiki ID is recorded as WHO 필수 의약품 목록[14].
  • essential medicine's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2777424817[15].
  • essential medicine's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2909998350[16].
  • essential medicine's WikiProjectMed ID is recorded as Essential medicines[17].

Why It Matters

essential medicine draws 23 Wikipedia views per month (drug_class category, ranking #54 of 81).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 26d ago · InternetArchiveBot bot · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Instance of → drug class
    Instance of → —
    Facet of → World Health Organization
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P10283]]: C2777424817, Rescuing 1 sources and submitting 0 for archiving. #IABot (v2.0.9.5)"
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