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OBJECTIVE:To provide reference for ensuring the medication safety of rural residents well.METHODS:A questionnaire survey was conducted among 162 rural residents of 27 townships in 11 counties (districts) from Yongzhou city of Hunan province.The survey data was analyzed statistically.RESULTS:A total of 5 670 questionnaires were issued and 4 376 valid questionnaires were recovered,with an effective recovery rate of 77.2％.73.6％ residents did not considered the incompatibility among drugs when receiving two or more drugs;the proportion of increasing or decreasing drug dosage and changing drugs at will was in high level.Most of the residents who had common drugs in the family did not pay enough attention to the custody of the reserved drugs and lacked of basic knowledge;the proportion of residents who bought drugs mainly from pharmacies was the highest (50.7％);in addition,nearly 20％ bought drugs mainly through the Intemet and other ways.More than half of the residents surveyed did not understand the drug instructions;after ADR occurred,more than half of the residents surveyed would stop or change their drugs voluntarily;more than 70％ of the residents surveyed did not know or did not pay attention to characteristics and incompatibility of drugs.CONCLUSIONS:Because of the low level of education,the lack of common sense of safe drug use in local rural residents and unbalanced allocation of medical resources,the phenomenon of irrational drug use is widespread and the safety of medication is not ideal;there is a lot of room for improvement.
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OBJECTIVE:To provide reference for ensuring the medication safety of rural residents well.METHODS:A questionnaire survey was conducted among 162 rural residents of 27 townships in 11 counties (districts) from Yongzhou city of Hunan province.The survey data was analyzed statistically.RESULTS:A total of 5 670 questionnaires were issued and 4 376 valid questionnaires were recovered,with an effective recovery rate of 77.2％.73.6％ residents did not considered the incompatibility among drugs when receiving two or more drugs;the proportion of increasing or decreasing drug dosage and changing drugs at will was in high level.Most of the residents who had common drugs in the family did not pay enough attention to the custody of the reserved drugs and lacked of basic knowledge;the proportion of residents who bought drugs mainly from pharmacies was the highest (50.7％);in addition,nearly 20％ bought drugs mainly through the Intemet and other ways.More than half of the residents surveyed did not understand the drug instructions;after ADR occurred,more than half of the residents surveyed would stop or change their drugs voluntarily;more than 70％ of the residents surveyed did not know or did not pay attention to characteristics and incompatibility of drugs.CONCLUSIONS:Because of the low level of education,the lack of common sense of safe drug use in local rural residents and unbalanced allocation of medical resources,the phenomenon of irrational drug use is widespread and the safety of medication is not ideal;there is a lot of room for improvement.
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OBJECTIVE:To provide a reference for promoting and strengthening pharmaceutical services by retail pharmacies in rural area in Yongzhou of Hunan. METHODS:Investigation was conducted on 13 aspects including the service concept,service mode,service process,service contents,hardwares and softwares and professional quality of practitioners of 357 retail pharmacies in rural area in Yongzhou of Hunan to know about current pharmaceutical services. RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS:In this area, 78.9% of pharmacies operated in the name of a licensed pharmacist or pharmacist who did not work in that pharmacy;only 53.3%of practitioners were pharmacy graduates;the proportion of the practitioners who takes part in training every year was less than 30.0%,average training time was not more than 8 hours;65.3% of practitioners in the pharmacies were not aware of the concept of pharmaceutical services;the pharmacies which were not equipped with basic hardwares and softwares for pharmaceutical servic-es accounted for 47.0%,those which had not established a pharmaceutical service management process accounted for 87.4%;and less than 10.0% of retail pharmacies provided door-to-door pharmaceutical services. Safe,effective and rational drug use should be achieved by intensifying the management and training for retail pharmacy practitioners,standardizing the contents of pharmaceutical services,establishing standard pharmaceutical service process,defining basic hardwares and softwares for pharmaceutical services, strengthening performance appraisal and evaluation for pharmaceutical services and urging the pharmacy to serve society.
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Objective To analyze the characteristics of epidemic situation of HIV/AIDS in Yongzhou from 1993 to 2014,and provide evidence for HIV/AIDS prevention and control strategy.Methods Descriptive epidemiological analysis was conducted on HIV/AIDS epidemic situation in Yongzhou from 1993 to 2014.Results A total of 2 917 HIV/AIDS cases were reported,the reported cases increased year by year;the ratio of male to female cases was 2.30∶1 ;52.04% were aged 20-49 years old,46.76% were aged ≥50 years old,the percentage of population ≥50 years old increased obviously in recent years;the major transmission route was sexual contact (88.48% ),gay transmission accounted for 2.64%.Conclusion The knowledge about AIDS in Yongzhou should be strengthened, intervention in high risk population should be implemented,scope of detection should be expanded,so as to prevent the transmission of AIDS effectively.