Hello, I'm currently doing a research that requires these data:
Annual (only 1 year) consumption of (any subtypes) these medications:
- antibiotics
- antidepressants
- statins (lipid-lowering)
I need these data from 2 countries (any available) to be compared. It doesn't matter what year the data are available as long as the data for all these medications mentioned are available, on the particular year and for the particular countries chosen. Can anyone suggest a reliable website/source/journal to look up to obtain these data?
Many thanks in advance.
Hello,
I think You can easily find the WHO data (they're providing such statistics), as well as the publications where the authors refer to this data. I think You can also find it on OECD websites.
Article Assessment of WHO antibiotic consumption and access targets ...
http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm
The Nordic prescription registries have data available for anyone in an aggregated form. For Norway the webpage is http://norpd.no/ There you can find groupings and individual drugs, consumption split by gender and age as you want as well as absolute and population adjusted prevalence.