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 always be blamed for misuse of antibiotics, and that better sustainable development policy is needed Efforts to improve security of livelihoods globally could also help tackle anti-microbial resistance as a side-effect