{"id":85401,"date":"2019-12-01T16:18:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T10:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12079"},"modified":"2019-12-01T16:18:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T10:48:06","slug":"antibiotic-prescription-rate-high-in-private-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/antibiotic-prescription-rate-high-in-private-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Antibiotic prescription rate high in private sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>According to a study by the researchers of Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), antibiotic prescription rate is high in the private sector.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the study:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This study is the first ever estimate of outpatient antibiotic prescription rates and patterns in the private sector.<\/li><li>It has been published with the title \u2014 \u201cOutpatient antibiotic prescription rate and pattern in the private sector in India\u201d.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways from the study:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The private sector has clocked high levels of antibiotic prescription rates (412 per 1,000 persons per year).<\/li><li>Of the 519 million antibiotic prescriptions,the majority were dispensed for the diseases of the respiratory system(55%).<\/li><li>The highest rate was seen among children aged 0\u20134 years (636 per 1,000 persons) and the lowest in the age group 10\u201319 years (280 per 1,000 persons).<\/li><li>The percentage of prescriptions for wide-spectrum antibiotics like cephalosporins and quinolones was significantly higher than the U.S. and Greece.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Antibiotic resistance:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is the ability of a microorganism like bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites to stop an antimicrobial such as antibiotics, antifungals, antivirals and antimalarial from working against it.The term antibiotic resistance specifically covers resistance to antibiotics.<\/li><li>As a result, the medicines become ineffective and infections persist in the body, increasing the risk of spread to others.<\/li><li>India is considered to be one of the top users of antibiotics and there is a growing problem of antimicrobial resistance.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The per capita antibiotic consumption in the retail sector has increased by around 22% in five years from 2012 to 2016.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:According to a study by the researchers of Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), antibiotic prescription rate is high in the private sector. Facts: About the study: This study is the first ever estimate of outpatient antibiotic prescription rates and patterns in the private sector. It has been published with the title \u2014 \u201cOutpatient antibiotic&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/antibiotic-prescription-rate-high-in-private-sector\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Antibiotic prescription rate high in private sector<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2745,2746],"class_list":["post-85401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-antibiotic-prescription","tag-private-sector","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704670166},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}