Open AccessAccess and availability of essential medicines in Chhattisgarh: Situation in public health facilities
Author(s) -
Narayan Tripathi,
Fidius Kerketta,
P. Chatterjee,
VR Raman,
Denny John,
Kamlesh Jain
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_78_17
Subject(s) - medicine , essential medicines , public health , medical prescription , pharmacy , mandate , government (linguistics) , descriptive statistics , access to medicines , environmental health , health facility , descriptive research , distribution (mathematics) , family medicine , health services , population , nursing , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , political science , law
In 2013, the Government of Chhattisgarh announced a policy guaranteeing access to free generic medicines in all the public health facilities. This study was conducted with the objectives of evaluating the prescribing patterns of physicians in public health facilities with regard to generic medicines, and whether the prescribed generic medicines were made available to patients.