Session

Medical, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

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One of the main objectives of this research is to obtain data about the consumption of contraceptive medicines in Kosovo, compare to other European countries with drug utilization studies and try to understand the rationale about the obtained results while also measuring progress towards the WHO Millennium Development Goals and Kosovo Health Sectorial Strategy 2017-2021.Regarding the contraceptive medicine consumption it is used the ATC classification of and the Defined Daily Doses per inhabitant per day (DID) as a numeric tool of the analysis. As for the perception of contraceptive dispensing in retail pharmacies are conducted interviews with pharmacists and for the prescription with doctors as part of the qualitative research with predefined questioners with open ended questions. There are analyzed all drugs of the G Group (Genitourinary system and sex hormones) in Kosovo from 2011 to 2015. From the medicines consumption data, it is seen that for the G-Group there is in general increasing trend of the total consumption in DID from 4.26 DID in 2011 to 10.52 DID in 2015. In the detailed analysis for the contraceptives subgroup G03A - Hormonal contraceptives for systemic use and G03D – Progestogens are the most consumed with 2.78 DID respectively 2.91 DID for the five year period 2011-2015.Kosovo is among the countries with very low contraception medicine consumption compared to other European and neighboring countries, which have much more consumption of this class of medicines as in Croatia with annual average of 36.12 DID, Montenegro 24.2 DID, Serbia 40.5 DID, Estonia 52.17 DID, Latvia 32.67 DID, Lithuania 28.72 DID. These data show the entire group G, however also the subgroup analysis show similar comparison. From the interviews with pharmacists and doctors it can be concluded that there is a low budget for providing and covering all the needs, there is lack of education for the benefits of the contraception use although the UNFPA has done a lot on this regard, but there are also a cultural, economic, and social factors for which Ministry of Health should make more awareness campaigns and fulfill the requirements from the health sectorial strategy.

Keywords:

Contraceptive medicine consumption, ATC, DID, drug utilization

Session Chair

Arianit Jakupi

Session Co-Chair

Valon Ejupi

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-437-67-7

First Page

4

Last Page

12

Location

Durres, Albania

Start Date

28-10-2017 9:00 AM

End Date

28-10-2017 10:30 AM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2017.284

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Trends of the Contraceptive Medicine Consumption in Kosovo

Durres, Albania

One of the main objectives of this research is to obtain data about the consumption of contraceptive medicines in Kosovo, compare to other European countries with drug utilization studies and try to understand the rationale about the obtained results while also measuring progress towards the WHO Millennium Development Goals and Kosovo Health Sectorial Strategy 2017-2021.Regarding the contraceptive medicine consumption it is used the ATC classification of and the Defined Daily Doses per inhabitant per day (DID) as a numeric tool of the analysis. As for the perception of contraceptive dispensing in retail pharmacies are conducted interviews with pharmacists and for the prescription with doctors as part of the qualitative research with predefined questioners with open ended questions. There are analyzed all drugs of the G Group (Genitourinary system and sex hormones) in Kosovo from 2011 to 2015. From the medicines consumption data, it is seen that for the G-Group there is in general increasing trend of the total consumption in DID from 4.26 DID in 2011 to 10.52 DID in 2015. In the detailed analysis for the contraceptives subgroup G03A - Hormonal contraceptives for systemic use and G03D – Progestogens are the most consumed with 2.78 DID respectively 2.91 DID for the five year period 2011-2015.Kosovo is among the countries with very low contraception medicine consumption compared to other European and neighboring countries, which have much more consumption of this class of medicines as in Croatia with annual average of 36.12 DID, Montenegro 24.2 DID, Serbia 40.5 DID, Estonia 52.17 DID, Latvia 32.67 DID, Lithuania 28.72 DID. These data show the entire group G, however also the subgroup analysis show similar comparison. From the interviews with pharmacists and doctors it can be concluded that there is a low budget for providing and covering all the needs, there is lack of education for the benefits of the contraception use although the UNFPA has done a lot on this regard, but there are also a cultural, economic, and social factors for which Ministry of Health should make more awareness campaigns and fulfill the requirements from the health sectorial strategy.