Insecure livelihoods hindering efforts to combat anti-microbial resistance globally
Credit: Patthanan Thavethanutthanawin Researchers led by University of Warwick find that precarity - in employment, personal circumstances, social status - is among the biggest factors in affecting whether patients use antibiotics correctly Whereas poverty did not have an impact, precarity pushed up to 1 in 2 people into inappropriate antibiotic use, suggesting that this could be a challenge in higher income as well as in developing countries Research demonstrates that individuals cannot alway...
United Kingdom Peter Thorley Patthanan Thavethanutthanawin Marco Haenssgen Department Of Global Sustainable Development Warwick Medical School
Source: eurekalert.org