E-drug: Questionnaire about drugs and public health
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Please we request your help to put in circulation this questionnaire in the
e-drug line.
Dear colleagues:
The University of Navarra (Spain), through the NGO CUSAD (University
Cooperation for Environmental Health and Development) will hold on
April 26th and 27th some days of actualisation and reflection on the
topic
�International Health and Development: Drugs�.
Some of the members of the organization CUSAD are preparing a document about
the activities that are being performed in fields related to drugs in
Developing Countries, and we would like to have the opinion that are in fact
working with drugs in these countries.
Please we request your collaboration answering to the following
questionnaire if you work or if you have worked near to drugs in Developing
Countries. It has been designed to be answered in 5 to 10 minutes.
Questionnaires or any other experience, could be send to the following
address until the end of February:
E-mail: fsxxi@recol.es
Mail: Farmacia Siglo XXI
C/ Navas de Tolosa 19-3�
31002 Pamplona - Spain
We guarantee confidentiality of addresses or names. Thank you for your
collaboration.
Belen Tarrafeta Sayas
Eduardo Satue de Velasco
A GENERAL INFORMATION
Your profession (mark the best answer with an X):
Pharmacist:
Pharmacist Assistant or Technician:
Doctor:
Nurse:
Other:
Speciality (if you have it):
Nationality:
Country in which you performed your studies:
Countries in which you work or have worked:
Organism for which you work (mark with X):
NGO:
Official institutions:
University:
Others:
B ABOUT HEALTH ACTIVITIES
In this section there is a list of activities concerning
different aspects
related to health. Please answer if you are informed about it, which
professional is usually in charge of these activities in the country where
you work. For a better simplification use the following code.
B=Biologist ; N=Nurse ; F=Pharmacist ; D=Doctor ; V=Veterinary ; T=Pharmacy
Technician or Assistant ; U=Any professional with university degree ;
NU=Any other worker with no university degree.
CYCLE OF DRUGS:
1 Research and Development:
2 Clinic Essays:
3 Bio-ethics:
4 TRIPS:
5 Production:
6 Production of active principles:
7 Design of medicines (capsules, syrups, etc):
8 Quality control:
9 Distribution:
10 Prescription:
11 Dispensaries:
12 Health Centres:
13 Hospital:
14 Others:
15 Dispensation:
16 Pharmacy
17 Hospital
18 Phitotherapy
19 Others:
20 Promotion of the Rational Use of Drugs:
21 Resistances to Antibiotics:
22 Elaboration of Essential Drug Lists
23 Interactions, Side Effects and Drug Surveillance:
24 Control in Renal and Hepatic Failure:
25 Use in Children, Pregnancy and Elder:
26 Pharma-economy:
27 Administration of drugs (injections, drips, �):
28 Dispensaries:
29 Health Centres:
30 Hospital:
31 Others:
32 Elimination of drug waste:
PUBLIC HEALTH
33 Epidemic studies:
34 Environmental Health:
35 Water Health (potable water, depuration, etc):
36 City waste:
37 Air pollution
38 Environmental control of drugs used in agriculture:
39 Hygiene and health control in Food Industry:
NUTRITION
40 Hospital feeding (enteral and parenteral):
41 Dietetics :
OTHERS:
42 Analysis:
43 Clinic tests:
44 Chemical tests:
45 Health Education:
46 To general population:
47 To sanitary workers:
48 Health Campaign:
49 Vaccination
50 Distribution of food, vitamins�:
51 Distribution of prophylactics:
52 Others:
Please mark the activity or activities in which you have worked by using the
corresponding numbers:
Regarding your capacities and training and the activities that you have
performed, please answer (mark with X):
My capacities and training were adequate to perform the activities :
My capacities and training were not adequate to perform the activities:
In which areas you maybe needed (or you have liked) a complementary
formation?:
C ACCESS TO DRUGS
The country where you work:
Has a list of Essential Drugs (Y/N)?:
Uses any list of Essential Drugs (Y/N)?:
For answering the follow questions use the next code if convenient:
Nothing or not at all=0
Few or little=1
Quite a lot, enough=2
A lot, completely=3
Essential drugs are accepted by local population?:
E.d. are accepted by local sanitary workers?:
The essential drug list (EDL) is adequate to country needs?:
Your opinion about the quality of drugs acquired in the country?:
Is there a good access to drugs by population?:
Drugs are affordable?:
Answer to the following questions:
Which drug or group of drugs you may include in the EDL?:
At what level (hospital, health centre, dispensary�)?:
Which drug or group of drugs you may take out of the EDL?:
At what level?:
Drugs used for your work are acquired (mark with X):
In the country:
At neighbour countries:
At non-profit laboratoires:
Donations/Gifts:
Drug falsifications in the country:
Are not studied or controlled:
Do not exist or are not frequent:
Often happen:
Suppose a serious health problem:
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