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2013

Epidemiology; Health Services Administration & Management; Public health

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Bibliographic Review Of Research Publications On Access To And Use Of Medicines In Low-Income And Middle-Income Countries In The Eastern Mediterranean Region: Identifying The Research Gaps., Arash Rashidian, Nader Jahanmehr, Samer Jabbour, Shehla Zaidi, Fatemeh Soleymani, Maryam Bigdeli Oct 2013

Bibliographic Review Of Research Publications On Access To And Use Of Medicines In Low-Income And Middle-Income Countries In The Eastern Mediterranean Region: Identifying The Research Gaps., Arash Rashidian, Nader Jahanmehr, Samer Jabbour, Shehla Zaidi, Fatemeh Soleymani, Maryam Bigdeli

Community Health Sciences

BJECTIVES:

We assessed the situation of academic publications on access to and use of medicines (ATM) in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) of the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). We aimed to inform priority setting for research on ATM in the region.

DESIGN:

Bibliographic review of published studies.

SETTING:

LMICs in EMR.

INCLUSION CRITERIA:

Publications on ATM issues originating from or focusing on EMR LMICs covering the period 2000-2011. Publications involving multinational studies were included if at least one eligible country had been included in the study.

INFORMATION SOURCES AND DATA EXTRACTION:

We conducted comprehensive searches of the PubMed, Social Science …