Consumption of Insulins in Primary Health Care in Albania during 2010-2020

Laerta Kakariqi
Additional contact information
Laerta Kakariqi: Department of Biomedical and Experimental, Section of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine in Tirana, Tirana, Albania

European Journal of Natural Scinces and Medicine Articles, 2023, vol. 6

Abstract: Aim: evaluation of trends in out-of-hospital utilization and to prescribe of Insulin in Albania using the Anatomic Therapeutic Chemical Classification/ Defined Daily Dose -(ATC/DDD methodology). Methods: The study was retrospective, and we analyzed the data collected from Health Insurance Institute (HII) of these drugs classes in the primary health care in Albania during 2010-2020. The data about the consumption of drugs were expressed as a number of Defined Daily Dose (DDDs) /1000 inhabitants/day. For all the period under study 2010-2020, there were collected and analyzed data of import and domestic production of drugs, which represent the real consumption of drugs in the country. These data were subsequently included in a comparative analysis with the utilization data according to the Health Insurance Institute. Results: The consumption of all insulin were 3.49-10.66 DDD/1000 inhabitants/day (respectively 2010-2020). The consumption of insulin fast-acting were 1.58-4.93 DDD/1000 inhabitants/day (respectively 2010-2020). The consumption of insulin intermediate-acting were 0.56-1.06 DDD/1000 inhabitants/day (respectively 2010-2020). The consumption of insulin intermediate-acting combined with insulin fast-acting was 1.00-1.46 DDD/1000 inhabitants/day. The consumption of insulin long-acting was 0.34-3.21 DDD/1000 inhabitants/day. Conclusions: There is an increase in Insulin use from HII covering but still low values in comparison with other countries.

Keywords: Drug utilization DDD; Insulin (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://brucol.be/index.php/ejmn/article/view/6943 (text/html)
https://brucol.be/files/articles/ejmn_v6_i1_23/Kakariqi.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eur:ejmnjr:77

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in European Journal of Natural Scinces and Medicine Articles from Revistia Research and Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Revistia Research and Publishing ().