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• Title: Consumers' Perception of Generic Medicines in Community Pharmacies in Malaysia (Research Briefs) (Report)
• Author : Southern Med Review
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 202 KB

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Introduction The Malaysian healthcare system can be divided into the public and private sector. In the public sector, medicines are free to all patients in government hospitals and clinics whereas in university hospitals, patients pay a small co-payment fee (1). Medicines dispensed in the government sector are mostly generic medicines (1). In private hospitals, dispensing doctor clinics and community pharmacies, patients pay the full cost of their medicines (1). Medicines dispensed in the private sector can be either generic or brand name medicines (1). In Malaysia total expenditure on prescription medicines was estimated to be worth RM 2.24 billion (US$ 0.59 billion) in 2005 (2). This represents a significant burden to both government and individuals. On average, the affordability of an essential drug treatment in the private sector, expressed as the ratio of treating moderate pneumonia to the lowest government wage, was 3.7 (3). This indicates that the cost of drug treatment is more than the lowest weekly government wage.

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