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Editorial: Medicine shortages in Australia - what are we doing about them?
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In this day and age it is amazing that a developed country such as Australia can run out of medicines. Find out why this is happening.
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“Over the years, the shortage of medicines has been a challenge to the effective delivery of quality healthcare services worldwide including South Africa [1–10], with shortages of even essential medicines becoming a global problem irrespective of the economic status of countries [11–13].”
From Medicine shortages and challenges with the procurement process among public sector hospitals in South Africa; findings and implications (2020) · cites this paper as [8]
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“Some of the contributing factors to the shortage of medicines include manufacturing and quality problems, production delays, lack of manufacturing capacity, shortage of raw materials, political instability, and profitability issues [5, 6, 8, 9, 18].”
From Medicine shortages and challenges with the procurement process among public sector hospitals in South Africa; findings and implications (2020) · cites this paper as [8]
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Modisakeng, C., Matlala, M., Godman, B., & Meyer, J. C. (2020) · BMC Health Services Research · doi:10.1186/s12913-020-05080-1 · Cited by 130
Metadata
- Authors
- Morris, S.
- Affiliations
- Government of South Australia (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Morris, Steve
- Venue
- Australian Prescriber
- Publisher
- Therapeutic Guidelines Limited
- Published
- 2018-10-02
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 136-137
- ISSN
- 0312-8008 (ISSN-L)
- 1839-3942
- PMC
- PMC6202294
- OpenAlex
- W2894047247
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 4
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- Australian Prescriber (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Health Workforce Issues
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Keywords
- drug shortages, drug supply, Australia
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