E-drug: Request for articles for research project
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Dear E-druggers,
I am a 2nd year pharmacy student of the Fiji School of Medicine
and doing research on doctors prescribing drugs that are not on the
essential drug list. I am basically looking for reasons to why doctors
are doing so. Has anyone done research on this area before? If so
then I would like to know. Also if anyone could help me on finding
articles or information on this topic, that would be very much
appreciated. It would be beneficial towards my literature review
which will be due on the 10th of August 2001.
Thank you for your consideration and help.
Julie Ogavoja Pinau
2nd year Pharmacy Student
Fiji School of Medicine
e-mail: jopinau@yahoo.com
[Julie, there is a massive amount of literature on determinants of
prescribing behaviour, including the prescribing of 'non-essential'
drugs. It is practically impossible to give a good overview of all the
literature that has appeared on the topic in the last decades. An
excellent source to start with is the book of Sjaak van der Geest
and Susan Reynolds Whyte: "The context of medicines in
developing countries. Studies in pharmaceutical anthropology."
Dordrecht/ Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.pp.
1-393. The next thing you could do is to search the INRUD drug
use bibliography, to be obtained from MSH, Arlington, USA
(www.msh.org). This bibliography contains almost all the serious
drug use literature that has appeared in the past 15 years. Maybe
Dr Murray Bailey can help you with this bibliography. HH]
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