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Pola Persediaan dan Penggunaan Obat Berdasar Resep dan Non Resep oleh Anggota Rumah Tangga di Indonesia
Drug resources health enforceent are essential to each effort to ensure the availability of high quality drugs in the merket, as well as easay and equity acces to them. Along with health awareness, they foster community health. Drug and health awarenness problems are so complex, because related to some aspects, such as quality, policy, on price performance, safety, availability and value for money. From this point of view, it is interesting to conduct a researh on the pattern of drug availabilty in households representing the community. The analysis aims to identify thepattern of drug availability in housholds, either prescribed or non prescribed. Result shows that the highest percentage (23%) of prescribed drugs belong to analgesic, antipyretic, and antinflammatory therapy class, folowed by anti infection and (respiratory medicine) for 13% and 10% respectively. For non prescribed drugs, the highest percentage is analgesic, antipyretic, and antiinflammatory (5%), followed by traditional herbs/medicines and respiratory medicines and digestive medicines, for 10%, 10% and 8%, respectively For joint diseases, accidents, and asthma, a majority of non prescribed drugs are used. While for cardiovascular diseass and diabetes, most of drugs used are prescribed drugs. It concluded that drugs belong to analegesic, antipiretic, and antinflammatory therapy class are widely used for chronic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, asthma, and other diseases, either prescribed or non prescribed.
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