Pharmacovigilance is a dynamic clinical and scientific discipline that has had an important impact on the public health environment. Madalina Huruba, manager (Pharmacovigilance), ELC Group, goes into the history of the discipline and the necessity of an effective pharmacovigilance system.
Impact
With a history of more than 40 years, pharmacovigilance is defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as ‘the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other possible drug-related problems’.