Self-reported chronic-illness overrules socio-demographic factors for medicine consumption in rural Bangladesh
Principal Investigator: Dr. S. M. Raysul Haque
Background
Medications are important therapeutic tools used in health as well as in disease, accounting for a significant part of the increased life expectancy and quality of life. Drug use is influenced by population structure, socioeconomic factors, behavioral and cultural shape of the morbidity and also by the characteristic of the pharmaceutical market. In general, these population-based studies have pointed to a higher consumption of drugs in women, with increasing age, among those with greater purchasing power, among the more educated, with a greater number of chronic diseases, whereas the patterns of drug use differ between regions and change over time depending on the profile changes health or illness and health policies implemented.
Objective
The aim of our study is to focus on self-reported chronic-illness and its impacts on medicine consumption in relation with other socio-demographic factors in four different districts of Bangladesh.