A number of strategies have been proposed by various organizations and governments for rationalizing the use of drugs in developing countries. Such strategies include the use of essential drug lists, generic prescribing, and training in rational prescribing. None of these require doctors to become actively involved in the management of the drug supply to their health centres. In 1997, in the Ka...

The essence of primary health care is the provision of essential health services and commodities to individuals and communities using available, acceptable and sustainable resources. However, there has been a growing lack of confidence by the populace as evidenced by poor utilization of the services. This study sought to identify the predominant barriers affecting the utilization of primary hea...

This paper examines changes in drug utilization following Taiwan's newly implemented National Health Insurance (NHI) outpatient prescription drug cost-sharing program for persons over 65 years old. The study is a hospital outpatient prescription level analysis that adopts a pretest-posttest control group experiment design. Selected measures of outpatient prescription drug utilization are examin...

usage of herbal medicine has been under so much attention for many years. they are gradually replacing synthetic drugs in pharmaceutical fields due to their fewer side effects. nowadays, essential oils are widely used for the treatment of diseases as well as being applied as pesticide. in this study, 32 components of zingiber essential oil were identified representing 97.42% of the extracted oi...

In recent years, medicament utilization studies were increasing in quantity, quality and diversity. This is not only due to the pivotal role pharmaceuticals play in the control of some diseases but also to the need of reviewing their utilization in the consumer societies as well as from the perspective of how much they weigh on the family budget, especially of the poor. An emerging – and qualif...

background and objectives: several natural compounds have been identified for the treatment ofleishmaniasis. due to a few safe drugs and the side effects caused by available chemotherapy, some new drugs for treatment of leishmaniasis are requested.  the genus pulicaria (asteraceae) is represented in the flora of iran by five species. phytochemical studies on pulicaria species have revealed some...

background and objectives: the expanding field of psychopharmacology is constantly seeking new and improved drugs to treat psychiatric disorders. although psychotropic drugs have had a remarkable impact in psychiatry, their utilization, effectiveness, and side effects in the in clinical practice need continuous study. the present study was thus designed to analyze the pattern of psychotropic dr...

conclusions a review of the literature on the use of hypnotic drugs in patients with liver dysfunction showed that some hypnotic drugs used during anesthesia could be safely used in patients with impaired liver function. in these patients, certain drugs should be used with caution. results anesthesia should be performed with caution in patients with hepatic dysfunction and drugs with long half-...