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Medication misuse in India: a major public health issue in India

Author(s) -

Gillian Porter,

Nathan Grills

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdv072

Subject(s) - medicine , narrative review , public health , health care , resistance (ecology) , inclusion (mineral) , environmental health , psychiatry , family medicine , political science , nursing , social science , intensive care medicine , sociology , law , biology , ecology

In India, it has been estimated that 50% of family spending on healthcare is on unnecessary medications or investigations. This, combined with the wide availability of medications, has seemingly contributed to increasing rates of antibiotic resistance and further impoverishment. In this literature review, we aim to characterize the extent of misuse and describe underlying factors contributing to the misuse of medication in India.

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