RE: [india-drug] Request for information on the average drug usage of Indian population :Revised (4)

["anita kotwani" <anitakotwani@msn.com>]

Request for information on the average drug usage of	Indian population :Revised (4)
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Dear Sukumar,
 
It is not easy to answer your queries.
 
I will suggest that first you should read about the concept of Essential Medicines.In India, we have one National EML and many states have their own EML.
 
For your second question  - You want to know the consumption of various medicines in India. You will have to find out from National Survey or consult the planning department (under Health) of various states to find out the consumption of different medicines in public facilities. To calculate the DDDs/1000 population of a particular medicines, find out the DDD of the medicines and find out the population of the area for which you have the values and then find out the DDD/1000 population. To get the data on consumption of different medicines you really have to search for that. You will have to find out the consumption of medicines in private sector as well which is again not so easy.In India, a major chunk of medicine consumption (around 80%) is from private sector. Else search for some studies who have done drug utilization studies in different states in both public and private sector.
 
Best of luck!
 
Anita Kotwani
Department of Pharmacology
V.P.Chest Institute
University of Delhi
Delhi
anitakotwani@msn.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:37:21 +0530> From: vellakkal@gmail.com> To: india-drug@healthnet.org> Subject: [india-drug] Request for information on the average drug usage of Indian population :Revised (3)> > Request for information on the average drug usage of Indian population :Revised (3)> **************************************************************> > Dear Friends,
 
> > Our organisation is engaged in providing all necessary technical and> logistical support for the micro health insurance units for the poor in> India. As a part, We are engaged in facilitating on getting drugs at> reasonable rate to various micro health insurance units. Few days back, I> have posted one querry about the suppliers of low cost drugs, the response> was highly positive, many thanks.> As a follow up, We are looking for some more information on the essential> drugs.> >From one of the websites of Govt of india (and also from WHO), I have> extracted information of a list of 356 essential drugs in India.> 1) With these essential drugs, I am eager to know which all illnesses can> (/or can not be) treated, and> 2) Also would like to know about the average of the actual uasage of these> essential drugs among the Indian population , for eg. .......mg/1000> population.> These information are expected to help us in making some actuarial> calculation too.> Please give me some guidance on how to collect information on the above> mentioned aspects. I would like to add I don't have previous> experience/expertise in this field. Meanwhile, I have been> exploring some information through internet, but the outcome was not that> much satisfactory.> > Thank you> > best> > Sukumar Vellakkal> Researcher,> Micro Insurance Academy> D-127 Panchsheel Enclave> New Delhi 110017> India> Phone: +91 11 4174 9101> Fax: +91 11 4174 9102> www.microinsuranceacademy.org> > > Links:> Institute for Social and Economic change (ISEC), Bangalore www.isec.ac.in> > Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands> www.eur.nl/english> _______________________________________________> Post message: india-drug@healthnet.org> Subscribe: india-drug-join@healthnet.org> Unsubscribe: india-drug-leave@healthnet.org> Help: india-drug-owner@healthnet.org> Info & archives: http://list.healthnet.org/mailman/listinfo/india-drug
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