Background: Advertising control of medicine and traditional medicine was based on the Decree of the Minister of Healthof Indonesia Number 386/Menkes/SK/IV/ 1994 about advertising guidelines medicine, traditional medicine, cosmetics, medical devices and foods. The purpose of the study are (1) to identify regulations related to the advertising of medicine and traditional medicine, (2) to identify…
Decree of Pharmaceutical Care Standards in Pharmacy (PCSP) has been issued by ministry of health to improve the professionalism on handling pharmaceutical care. The aims of this study is to know implementation of PCSP, especially on drug information, drug counselling, drug use monitoring, home caring; as well as to identify the need for trainingfor the pharmacists. A cross sectional study has b…
Alcohol consumption by children and adolescents have become a very serious education problem in several areas in Indonesia such as in Papua (Kompas 17-11-2003). Habitual alcohol drinking among children and adolescent, especially in marginal economic status area, will certainly influence their behavior and may result in serious social disturbances including criminal acts. The objective of the st…
About 33% of Indonesiam people who have illness visited community health the related factors. The design of the study was using secondary data of centers. The rest prefered self medication, other medical cares, and traditional medications. The study aimed to achieve information o the characteristic of inpatients and outpatients in the community health centers, and also Household Survey (SKRT) …
The use of traditional and herbal medicine as well as health food supplements are increasing since “back to nature” became a life style in many countries including in Indonesia. Traditional medicine is often claimed as safe and does not have any adverse effects although it is documented that many medicinal plants have the intrinsic potential of being toxic, possible interaction with each ot…