Resumen de Utilizacion de medicamentos en un dispensario rural Africano de la republica de Benin
E. Becerril, Antonio Iñesta García, A. Gil
Introduction: Since the conference about Rational Drug Use in 1985, there have been multiplied the efforts towards the improvement in the practices of drug use, being the principal purpose of the studies conducted about drug use the quantification of their actual use, the evaluation of their quality and the etimation of their future demands. Population and Method: There has been taken place a transversally descriptive study in the children consultation of an african rural dispensary from the Republic of Benin, in Western Africa. It has been utilised a method validated by the World Health Organization, in order to describe the patterns of use and the pharmacotherapeutic prescriptive practices, of a low acote respiratory infections (lira), paludism, diarrea and evaluate their adecuation degree. There were obtained 141 visits of children to the consultation, being the average age of 24 ±20.11 months. The average number of drugs per consultation was 6 ±1.16. Conclusions: The number of medications per consultation, as well as the percentage of consultations in which an antibiotic and/or an injectable were prescribed, are high with respect to other studies that have taken place
