Volume 3, Issue 2

Dixon Thomas, Kishore Gnana Sam Sundararaj, Annie Shirwaikar, Arun Shirwaikar

pp. 41–42 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2017.2.11 · 2017

The use of medicines as healthcare interventions bring to the fore 2 important aspects of quality namely; ‘quality of medicines’ and ‘quality use of medicines’ (QUM). Governmental and non-governmental agencies in a regul…

Mohammed Alshakka, Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Heyam Ali, Aymen Saleh Abdulla, P Ravi Shankar, Huda Basaleem, Mohammed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim

pp. 43–47 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2017.2.12 · 2017

Medication safety is one of the challenges which is in focus now-a-days, and various approaches to reduce the incidence of medication related problems and risks are ongoing. Most initiatives have concentrated on medicati…

Faiz Ullah Khan, Asim Ur Rehman, Haroon Rashid, Zahid Khan, Fazal Rabbi, Syed Mujahid Shah

pp. 48–52 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2017.2.13 · 2017

Background:Most of the people have poor knowledge and inability to administer liquid medications properly which can lead to medication errors and poor health outcomes as laymen and even health care professionals hardly k…

Mohamed Azmi Ahmad Hassali, Asrul Akmal Shafie, Palaian Subish

pp. 53–57 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2017.2.14 · 2017

Objectives: This study was to evaluate the perception of senior pharmacy students towards herbal medicines and determine their knowledge towards herbal medicines as well as to identify whether there is any association be…

Mohamed Saif Anaam, Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim, Abdul Wahed Al Serouri, Amal Bassili, Adel Aldobhani

pp. 58–65 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2017.2.15 · 2017

Background: The economic burden of tuberculosis (TB) in Yemen is enormous. Little empirical information is available about TB relapse-related cost incurred by government for treating relapse patients. Objective:The prese…

Venkatesh Krishna Narayana, Sucharitha Suresh, Chandrashekar R

pp. 66–69 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2017.2.16 · 2017

Objectives: The objectives of this study was to define and identify the symptoms of elder abuse, create awareness about its existence to the primary health care workers and recommend an appropriate strategy for its preve…

Ali Ahmed, Maria Tanveer, Gul Majid Khan, Kashif Hanif

pp. 70–75 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2017.2.17 · 2017

Objective:To describe and analyze the prevalent prescribing trends of anti-asthmatics drugs among 1-12 year old children in Lahore, a major city of Pakistan, is the objective of this study. In addition, the study attempt…

Mohammad Arief, Mohamed Azmi Ahmad Hassali, Fahad Saleem, Muhammad Umair Khan, Akram Ahmad, Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathulha, Shazia Qasim Jamshed

pp. 81–89 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2017.2.20 · 2017

Objective:The objectives of this study were to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes towards ZIKV and its prevention among residents of Selangor, Malaysia. Methods:A pre-tested, self administered, cross-sectional survey i…

Muhammad Junaid Farrukh, Muhammad Haseeb Tariq, Kifayat Ullah Shah

pp. 76–77 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2017.2.18 · 2017

Dear Editor, Maternal and perinatal mortality have appeared a huge challenge in the health care setting of developing countries. [1] Considering the importance of this issue, in 1987 maternal and perinatal health is cons…

Gokarna Dahal, Prabha Pokhrel

pp. 78–80 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2017.2.19 · 2017

Nepal is one of the ten least urbanized countries in the world but the pace of urbanization depots among the fastest ten. All most one third of the total country populations now leave in 217 municipalities and the number…