Community level antibiotic utilization in India and its comparison vis-a-vis European countries: Evidence from pharmaceutical sales data.

ABSTRACT: India was the largest consumer of antibiotics in 2010 in the world. Evidence suggests that countries with high per-capita antibiotic consumption have higher rates of antibiotic resistance. To control antibiotic resistance, not only reduction in antibiotic consumption is required, socio-economic factors like access to clean water and sanitation, regulation of private healthcare sector and better governance are equally important. The key objective of this research was to investigate the five year trends in consumption of major antibiotic classes in India and compare them with European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption Network (ESAC-Net) countries. We used Intercontinental Marketing Statistics (IMS) Health (now IQVIA) medicine sales audit data of antibiotic sales in the retail private

SUBMITTER: Farooqui HH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6192587 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature