Consumption of Medicaments in the Slovak Republic

High consumption of medicaments places a heavy burden on public health systems. Several major national surveys have documented important increases in the misuse and abuse of several prescription drugs (1). Analysing consumption and prescription of drugs have been conducted in several studies (2, 3). This study aimed to analyze the consumption of individual classes of medicaments in the Slovak Republic between 2013 and 2015. We conducted a descriptive analysis. Medicaments consumption data were obtained from the National Health Information Centre of the Slovak Republic (4-6). Consumption of medicaments was transformed to relative percentage annual difference and averaged, thus we get socalled mean percentage difference (MPD) characteristic of annual growth consumption of medicaments, formally;