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Share of Traditional and Industrial Medications of Total Medication Expenditures in Iran, 2013-2014

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  • Mehdi Yousefi
  • Hamed Tabesh

    (Management and Social Determinants of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran)

  • Mina jafari

    (Health Management, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran)

  • Samira Olyani

    (Health Education & Health Promotion, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran)

  • Hosein Ebrahimipour

    (Management and Social Determinants of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran)

Abstract

Industrial and traditional medications are classified as evitable part of health care systems. In all health care systems, a high share of financial resources is allocated to medications. The aim of this article is to determine the share of industrial and traditional medications from overall cost of health care in rural and urban area of Iran. This cross¬_ sectional descriptive study was conducted on income and expenditure data of households. In this study, respectively 37765 and 38826 households from urban and rural area were surveyed. The household medications cost was extracted from seven medication group. Capacity to pay for each household excluded from deduction of median cost of dietary of overall household costs. Data have been analyzed by excel software. The median cost of medicine in urban and rural area was respectively 352,934.56 and 247850.69 Rial. Share of industrial medicine in urban and rural area was respectively 97.2 and 97.9. Education can help to shift dramatically increase of industrial medication use trend to traditional medicine.

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  • Mehdi Yousefi & Hamed Tabesh & Mina jafari & Samira Olyani & Hosein Ebrahimipour, 2018. "Share of Traditional and Industrial Medications of Total Medication Expenditures in Iran, 2013-2014," Global Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 4(3), pages 48-54, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:jgjpps:v:4:y:2018:i:3:p:48-54
    DOI: 10.19080/GJPPS.2018.04.555637
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