' School of Pharmacy. Health Sciences University of Mongolia
-Ministiy of Health, Mongolia 1 Fresbout Consulting. Australia
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Objectives of the survey are to find the origin of primary care pharmaceutical prescriptions and to study the variables correlated with pharmaceutical cost, with special reference to essential drug fist medicines. Further objectives are to describe and explain the annual pharmaceutical expenditure generated by the professionals in both public and private health and pharmaceutical sector. Methodology: a cross sectional, retrospective study was used in order to complete the survey. Results: the main outcomes of this survey evaluated the equity of access, dispensing of reimbursable essential drugs and the total number of inpatients with health insurance. Received, reimbursed essential drugs were calculated. A review of the price of essential drugs in chosen organizations was undertaken in order to evaluate the current and future status of essential drugs and reimbursement from Social Health Insurance Fund, and also to determine the excess of the 'recommended' market price by using the standard comparison for medicine price.
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