E-DRUG: Re: References on Pharmacy dispensing practices

From: Sylvester Ndeso-Atanga <S.NDESO-ATANGA@lshtm.ac.uk>
To: owner-e-drug@usa.healthnet.org
Subject: References on Pharmacy dispensing practices
Date: 28 Mar 96 15:13:49 GMT

To e-drug@usa.healthnet.org

Date 28\3\96

Hello Friends,

I am a doctorate student in health policy at the London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I am urgently in need of literature on
"Dispensing Practices of Pharmacists and their Assistants in
Developing Countries. Can any one provide me with information on this
aspect of pharmaceuticals. Experiences in developed countries are
abundant but I need to know more about dispensing practices in
community pharmacies in developing countries. Please treat as urgent.
Thank you.

Ndeso Atanga Sylvester
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
keppel Street WC1E 7HT UK
Fax : 171 637 5391
E.Mail : S.Ndeso-Atanga@lshtm.ac.uk

Here are some references you could try:

1. Osiobe SA. Physicians' and pharmacists' drug information sources in
Nigeria. Drug Info J 1988;22:553-63.
2. Kreling DH, Dzvimbo JW. Drug information sources used by physicians
and pharmacists: a study of public hospitals in Zimbabwe. J Soc Admin
Pharm 1989;6:197-207.
3. Amhad SR, Bhutta ZA. A survey of paediatric prescribing and dispensing
in Karachi. JPMA 1990;40:126-30.
4. Wolffers I. Drug information and sale practices in some pharmacies of
Colombo, Sri Lanka. Soc Sci Med 1987;25:319-21.
5. Tomson G, Sterky G. Self-prescribing by way of pharmacies in three
Asian developing countries. Lancet 1986;2:620-2.
6. Bonnema J, Dalebout JA. The abuse of high dose estrogen/progestin
combination drugs in delay of menstruation: the assumptions and practices
of doctors, midwives and pharmacists in a Peruvian city. Soc Sci Med
1992;34:281-9.

Joel Lexchin

Joel Lexchin MD
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