Implications of non-prescription antibiotic sales in China
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Non-prescription sale of antibiotics is profoundly common practice in LMICs, as demonstrated by the high prevalence of the practice identified in simulated clients and questionnaire-based surveys.
“The non-prescription sale of antibiotics is profoundly common practice in LMICs as demonstrated by the high prevalence of the practice identified in simulated clients and questionnaire based surveys [16, 17, 22–33].”
From No prescription? No problem: drivers of non-prescribed sale of antibiotics among community drug retail outlets in low and middle income countries: a systematic review of qualitative studies (2021) · cites this paper as [16]
The main text reports high rates of non-prescription antibiotic sales in LMICs and gives high rates from a simulated-client study in China. It does not identify questionnaire-based surveys as evidence for those prevalence figures; a survey appears only in the references. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Kalungia, A., & Godman, B.
- Affiliations
- University of Zambia (ZM)
- Karolinska University Hospital (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Godman, Brian
- Venue
- The Lancet Infectious Diseases
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-12
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1272-1273
- ISSN
- 1473-3099 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2978811975
- Cited by
- 47
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2025: 8 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 4
- FWCI
- 5.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- Locations
- The Lancet Infectious Diseases (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology › Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Medicine › Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Keywords
- antibiotic overuse, antimicrobial resistance, inappropriate antibiotic use, self-medication, low- and middle-income countries, China, public health policy
- MeSH terms
- Anti-Bacterial Agents, China, Commerce, Cross-Sectional Studies, Longitudinal Studies, Pharmacies
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