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Reference
Title: | Greater Expectations: Pharmacy Based Health Care - The Future for Europe? |
Author: | Sara Garfield, Jean Hawkins, Jennifer Newbould, Timothy Rennie and David Taylor [The School of Pharmacy, University of London], [ICM Research] |
Source: | http://www.pharmacy.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/News/Greater_Expectations_web_edition.pdf |
Year: | 2007 |
Details
Subject/Type: | Counterfeiting |
Focus: | Medicines and Medical Devices |
Country/Territory: | France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Sweden, United Kingdom |
Objective: | To provide an up-to-date insight into European public beliefs about the potential of community pharmacists to act as medicines prescribers. |
Sample: | 1.000+ adults in France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom |
Methodology: | Telephone interviews (France, Germany, Greece, Sweden, United Kingdom), face-to-face interviews (Poland) |
Main Findings
Overall, 74% of the European public interviewed agreed that there is a growing risk from counterfeit medicines. Agreement with this statement was highest in Germany (with 86% either agreeing or strongly agreeing), followed by Sweden (83%), Greece (82%) and Poland (72%).
In France and the United Kingdom, 61% and 55% respectively felt that there is a growing counterfeit medicines risk.
[Date Added: Mar 31, 2009 ]