Background: Act Number 36 of 2009 on Health states that the government has the responsibility to regulate the planning, procurement, empowerment, and control/ing of the quality of health workers in performing health care in lndonesia. Meanwhile the Government Regulation Number 51 of 2009 requires that the practice of pharmacy must be done by pharmacist and one of the health facilities conduetin…
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) merupakan salah satu galur multiresisten yang menjadi masalah kesehatan global sejak 50 tahun terakhir. Secara genetik, resistensi MRSA didasari adanya insersi mecDNA atau Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) pada kromosom S. aureus. Sejauh ini telah diidentifikasi 5 tipe SCCmec, yaitu SCCmec tipe I–V yang berasal dari isolat di se…
Background: A study to analyze data of Basic Health Research 2010 (Riskesdas 2010) was done to describe the profile of household using self-made herbal medicines and to identify the characteristics of household members that related to use of self-made herbal medicines. Methods: The sampel was individuals aged fifteen years old or more and who use self-made herbal medicine i.e. 177,927 people fr…
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…
Background: During the period of 2000-2006, the utilization of traditional medicine in Indonesia continued to increase. Data analysis was conducted to determine the profile of Indonesia's population using daily herbal medicine and the related factors. Methods: Analysis was conducted using the 2010 Basic Health Research Survey (Riset Kesehatan Dasar/Riskesdas) data covering a sub sample of pe…
Artemisinin via overproduction of free radical acts as a potent drug against multi-drug resistant Plasmodium. because of new permeation pathway evidence at parasitized red blood cell membrane, L ascorbic acid as hydrophilic antioxidant hopefully can’t penetrate the membrane so that it won’t interfere the artemisinin antimalarial effect rather it protects the host cell out of parasitized ery…