I have mentioned the Practical Pharmacy newsletter produced by Health Action International Africa previously.
This issue looks at adherence from a number of positions including the factors that contribute to poor adherence, ways for children to take medicine and tailoring dosage regimes.
Adherence: The degree to which patients follow medical advice and take medicines as directed. Adherence depends not only on patient’s acceptance of information about the health threat itself but also on the practioner’s ability to persuade the patient that the treatment is worthwhile and on the patient’s perception of the practitioner’s credibility, empathy, interest and concern. (WHO/MSF)
Although based on African experiences many of the examples and points made are pertinent in Australia’s ‘fourth world’, remote indigenous Australia. The current issue is below or it can also back issues can be found here
{ 3 trackbacks }
{ 0 comments… add one now }