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Relationship Between Fake Drugs And People's Perception Of Health Care Delivery System In Onitsha Urban
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Primary health care
is promotive, preventive, and rehabilitative. Health services based on
PHC include at least immunization against the major infectious diseases:
measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, polio, tetanus, and tuberculosis
and other components of National Health Policy.
When fake vaccines
were used and no immunity conferred on the immunized, such individuals
would be highly disposed to developing the specific disease.
The term
secondary health care is a service provided by medical specialists who
generally do not have first contact with patients, for example,
cardiologists, urologists and dermatologists. A physician might
voluntarily limit his or her practice to secondary care by refusing
patients who have not seen a primary care provider first, or a physician
may be required, usually by various payment agreements, to limit the
practice this way (Wikipedia, 2009).
Tertiary health care is a
specialized consultative care, usually on referral from primary
orsecondary health care personnel, by specialists working in a centre
that has personnel and facilities for special investigation or diagnosis
and treatment ( Wikipedia, 2008).
Quaternary health Care –Quaternary
health care is the advanced level of medicines which arehighly
specialized and not widely used (Intota, 2009). It is the provision of
health care to patients in cardiac care, orthopedic, neurosciences,
oncology, renal care, and so forth.
Given the present situation in
Nigeria, the environment is intensely stressful and virtually everyone's
health is dangerously threatened in one way or another. In periods like
this, our health care delivery system should provide relief to
Nigerians, so many of whom are daily on edge (Adelusi-Adeluyi, 1995).
Unfortunately, this painful situation has been compounded by the use of
fake drugs in our health care delivery. It is worthwhile to note that
decisions as to the genuineness of drugs one consumes, appropriateness
and competence of both the health care facilities and personnel deserve a
great attention.
In Nigeria, because of chaotic drug distribution,
possibility of one becoming a victim of counterfeit drugs is very high.
After all, it is more difficult to secure a house with over a thousand
doors than the one with one or two doors. There are so many handlers
(intermediaries) in drug distribution in Nigeria. Each intermediary is a
potential entry point for fake drugs.
According to WHO (2006), “a
counterfeit drug is one which is deliberately and fraudulently
mislabeled with respect to identity and / or source. Counterfeiting can
apply to both branded and generic products and counterfeit products may
include products with the correct ingredients or with the wrong
ingredients, without active ingredients, with insufficient active
ingredients or with fake packing.†In the Nigerian counterfeit and
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study was conducted to assess the relationship between fake drug (FD) use and people’s attitude towards healthcare delivery system (HCDS). Participants (n = 103) were both healthcare providers (56) and consumers (47). 36 were males and 67 were females above eighteen years. They were selected through a random sampling technique. The mean ages were 37.2, 34.2 and 42.8 for all the participants, female participants and male participants respectively. All testing took place in Onitsha Gen ... Continue reading---
