An interview was conducted, using a disigned questionary concerning the behavior of medications and the medical cost for 3450 households with 16732 persons in 69 population groups in Ba Vi, Ha Tay province. The study showed that in a last week, 20,48% of interview subjects had got a disease, among them 95% had used the medicaments, 81,5% of patients bought them at private drugstore and only 4,52% at communal health station. At communal health station, antibiotics were distributed with higher quantity than other, while traditional oriental medicament with lower quantity. The average cost for each treatment was 30,645đ, accounting for 89,7% of total cost, among it 44,05% was for antibiotics. The cost for buying medicaments at health station was higher than at private drug store and at the market.
Epidemiology ; Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Health Care Costs