Correlation Between Fake Drugs And People’s Perception Of Healthcare Delivery System In Anambra State

Correlation Between Fake Drugs And People’s Perception Of Healthcare Delivery System In Anambra State 

Chapter One

Preface

Background Of The Study

The significance of a robust health- care delivery system for any population is tone-apparent and can not be exaggerated. A healthy person is a great asset not just to himself, his family, and society as a whole.

The World Health Organization( WHO) defined health in 1948 as a condition of whole physical, internal, and social well- being, rather than simply the absence of sickness or infirmity. The World Health Organization( WHO) said in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion in 1986 that” health is a mortal right.”” Not the thing of actuality, but a resource for everyday life. Health is a positive notion that emphasizes social and particular coffers in addition to physical capacities.” Physical, internal, emotional, and social well- being are each important factors of overall health.

To attain total health, we bear health care delivery systems( HCDS) that can offer high- quality medical treatment while also being responsive to the health requirements and prospects of the communities they serve.

Health care delivery, on the other hand, is the forestallment, treatment, and operation of sickness as well as the conservation of internal and physical well- being through the services handed by the medical, nursing, medicinal, dental, clinical laboratory lores, and confederated health professions( Wikipedia, 2009).

Health care delivery, according to WHO, encompasses all products and services aimed at promoting health, including” preventative, restorative, and palliative treatments, whether directed at people or communities.” A health care delivery system is a system that organizes the provision of similar services. When phony specifics are employed in health care delivery, the abecedarian thing of the system, which is to ameliorate general health, isn’t met.

By examining the situations of health care delivery systems, the link between fake medicine operation in the healthcare delivery system and how people view health care delivery systems will be more understood. Lunde( 1990) linked four abecedarian situations of care in all health- care systems

1. Prioritize tone- care.

2. Professional primary care.

3. Secondary care or general technical care.

4. Tertiary care orsuper-specialist care.

There’s also quaternary care, which is the fifth degree of care.

tone- care is defined by the World Health Organization as” conduct that people, families, and communities engage in with the thing of perfecting health, avoiding complaint, minimizing sickness, and restoring health.” These conditioning are grounded on a combination of professional andnon-professional knowledge and capacities. They’re carried out by laypeople on their own behalf, either alone or in cooperative cooperation with professionals. ” The capacity to take applicable action( s) to attain overall health will be manifested by an existent’s tone- care chops and knowledge. Knowing when to seek professional treatment, gathering information on what kind of care to seek, and knowing where to admit asked medical services are exemplifications of similar acts.

Media reports( print and electronic) and lay information about fake medicine incidents and consequences might affect a person’s decision on how to gain health treatment. As a result, it’s pivotal to figure out the link between false medicine use in HCDS and how it impacts people’s comprehensions of the complaint.

Primary health care( PHC), as defined in the Alma- Ata Declaration( 1978), is essential health care grounded on practical, scientifically sound, and socially respectable styles and technology that’s widely accessible to individualities and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can go to maintain at every stage of their development in the community.

Promotive, preventative, and rehabilitative health care are all aspects of primary health care. Immunization against the primary contagious conditions measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, polio, tetanus, and TB, as well as other factors of National Health Policy, are included in PHC- grounded health care.

When false vaccinations are used and no impunity is communicated on the vaccinated, those who are invested are more likely to get the illness.

Secondary health care refers to services offered by medical experts who don’t frequently see cases originally, similar as cardiologists, urologists, and dermatologists. A croaker may choose to confine his or her practice to secondary care by denying cases who haven’t visited a primary care provider first, or a croaker may be forced to limit his or her practice in this fashion, generally through colorful payment arrangements( Wikipedia, 2009).

Tertiary health care is technical discussion care handed by experts working in a center with people and installations for specific disquisition, opinion, and treatment, generally on recommendation from primary or secondary health care labor force( Wikipedia, 2008).

Quaternary health care refers to the loftiest degree of drug, which is largely technical and not generally used( Intota, 2009). It include furnishing medical treatment to cases in areas similar as cardiac care, orthopedics, neurosciences, cancer, and renal care, among others.

Given the current state of affairs in Nigeria, the terrain is extremely stressful, and nearly everyone’s health is jeopardized in some manner. In times like these, our health- care system should give respite to Nigerians, who are constantly on edge( Adelusi- Adeluyi, 1995). Unfortunately, the use of phony drugs in our health- care delivery has aggravated this unwelcome script. It’s worth noting that judgments on the authenticity of the medicines one takes, as well as the felicity and faculty of health- care installations and people, need a lot of study.

Because of Nigeria’s unstable medicine distribution, the threat of being a victim of fake specifics is relatively high. After all, securing a property with over a thousand doors is more delicate than securing one or two doors. In Nigeria, there are a lot of instructors( interposers) involved in medicine distribution. Each conciliator represents a possible entrance route for fake drugs.

“ A fake drug is one that’s purposefully and fraudulently mislabeled with regard to identification and/ or source, ”( WHO, 2006). fake products might include products with the proper constituents or the incorrect factors, products without active constituents, products with shy active constituents, or products with false packaging. ”

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

medicines as we all know it are veritably delicate substances and if a wrong tradition is given, can have excruciating results on the case. The intimidating rate at which fake medicines are specified to the people of Anambra state is a cause for concern not just to the nonsupervisory bodies overseeing the conditioning of these healthcare services but also to the government of Anambra state because these fake medicines have a huge negative impact on the residers of Anambra state and it may also affect their perspectives on the credibility of healthcare systems as their perspectives may beget them to lose trust completely in healthcare services and resort to tone drug which is extremely dangerous and can be dangerous to the people.

This study seeks to probe the correlation between fake medicines and people’s perception of healthcare systems in Anambra state.

Ideal Of The Study

The primary end of this study is to determine the correlation between fake medicines and people’s perception of healthcare systems in Anambra state. therefore, the following are the specific objects;

1. To determine the frequence of fake medicines administration to cases in Anambra.

2. To determine if the frequence of fake medicines has a negative effect on the perception of consumers towards healthcare systems.

3. To determine the recrimination of fake medicines administration.

Exploration Questions

The following questions guide this exploration;

1. What’s the frequence of fake medicines administration to cases in Anambra?

2. Does the frequence of fake medicines have any negative effect on the perception of consumers towards healthcare systems.

3. What are the recrimination of fake medicines administration?

Significance Of The Study

This study will be significant as it’ll produce mindfulness on the rate at and the extent to which fake medicines are specified to the residers of Anambra state. It’ll be a call to attention for medical interpreters and the necessary nonsupervisory bodies of medicinals and healthcare centers to duly probe on the type of medicines specified to people as it negatively affects the image of healthcare centers.

Compass Of The Study

This study will only cover the correlation between fake medicines and peoples ’ comprehensions of healthcare systems. The goods of these comprehensions will also be looked into as well as the extent to which fake medicines are administered to the people of Anambra state. This study will be limited to residers in Onitsha, Anambra state.

Limitation Of The Study

This study is limited to only the people in Anambra state as the study can not concentrate on a wider sample size as gathering of data will be tedious. Also, during the course of this exploration, the experimenter was limited by vacuity of essential finances demanded to carry out this study in depth.

Description Of Terms

1. medicines A drug or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or else introduced into the body.

2. PERCEPTION The way in which an individual understands or interprets a certain conception or view or thing.

3. HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS The health care system refers to the institutions, people and coffers involved in delivering health care to individualities