Towards the Just and Sustainable Use of Antibiotics
dc.contributor.author | L. Buckland Merrett, Gemma | |
dc.contributor.author | Bloom, Gerald | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilkinson, Annie | |
dc.contributor.author | MacGregor, Hayley | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-08T10:00:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-05-08T10:00:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-10-07 | |
dc.identifier.citation | L. Buckland Merrett, G., Bloom, G., Wilkinson, A., MacGregor, H. (2016) Towards The Just and Sustainable Use of Antibiotics. Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice. 9 (31). | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/13731 | |
dc.description.abstract | The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistant pathogens poses a big challenge to policy-makers, who need to oversee the transformation of health systems that evolved to provide easy access to these drugs into ones that encourage appropriate use of antimicrobials, whilst reducing the risk of resistance. This is a particular challenge for low and middle-income countries with pluralistic health systems where antibiotics are available in a number of different markets. This review paper considers access and use of antibiotics in these countries from a complex adaptive system perspective. It highlights the main areas of intervention that could provide the key to addressing the sustainable long term use and availability of antibiotics. A focus on the synergies between interventions addressing access strategies, antibiotic quality, diagnostics for low-resource settings, measures to encourage just and sustainable decision making and help seeking optimal therapeutic and dosing strategies are key levers for the sustainable future of antibiotic use. Successful integration of such strategies will be dependent on effective governance mechanisms, effective partnerships and coalition building and accurate evaluation systems at national, regional and global levels. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | BioMed Central | en |
dc.rights | © 2016 The Author(s). Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Health | en |
dc.title | Towards the Just and Sustainable Use of Antibiotics | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | The authors | en |
dc.identifier.externaluri | https://joppp.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40545-016-0083-5 | en |
dc.identifier.team | Health and Nutrition | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40545-016-0083-5 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2016-09-29 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40545-016-0083-5 | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | 9ce4e4dc-26e9-4d78-96e9-15e4dcac0642 | en |
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