4,189
Views
17
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Rural community perceptions of antibiotic access and understanding of antimicrobial resistance: qualitative evidence from the Health and Demographic Surveillance System site in Matlab, Bangladesh

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon
Article: 1824383 | Received 01 Jul 2020, Accepted 11 Sep 2020, Published online: 12 Oct 2020

References

  • Travis A, Chernova O, Chernov V, et al. Antimicrobial drug discovery: lessons of history and future strategies. Expert Opin Drig Discovery. 2018;13:1–10.
  • Roess AA, Winch PJ, Ali NA, et al. Animal husbandry practices in rural Bangladesh: potential risk factors for antimicrobial drug resistance and emerging diseases. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2013;89:965–970.
  • Ayukekbong JA, Ntemgwa M, Atabe AN. The threat of antimicrobial resistance in developing countries: causes and control strategies. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2017;6:8.
  • Knight GM, Costelloe C, Murray KA, et al. Addressing the unknowns of antimicrobial resistance: quantifying and mapping the drivers of burden. Clin Infect Dis. 2017;66:5.
  • Antimicrobial resistance [Internet]. 2018 Feb 19. Available from: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antimicrobial-resistance
  • Lomazzi M, Moore M, Johnson A, et al. Antimicrobial resistance – moving forward? BMC Public Health. 2019;19:858.
  • Nunes AN, Lee K, O’Riordan T. The importance of an integrating framework for achieving the sustainable development goals: the example of health and well-being. BMJ Glob Health. 2016;1:12.
  • Berthe FCJ, Wadsworth J, Thiebaud A, et al. Pulling together to beat superbugs: knowledge and implementation gaps in addressing antimicrobial resistance. In: Bank W, editor. Washington (DC): The World Bank; 2019. p. 95.
  • Interagency Coordination Group Antimicobial Resistance. No time to wait - securing the future from drug-resistant infections. In: IACG, editor. Report to the secretary of the United Nations. New York:  United Nations; 2019. p. 28.
  • Divala T, Burke RM, Ndeketa L, et al. Africa faces difficult choices in responding to COVID-19. Lancet Correspondence. 2020;20:1.
  • Will CM. The problem and the productivity of ignorance: public health campaigns on antibiotic stewardship. Sociological Rev. 2020;68:55–76.
  • Alividza V, Mariano V, Ahmad R, et al. Investigating the impact of poverty on colonization and infection with drug-resistant organisms in humans: a systematic review. Infect Dis Poverty. 2018;7:11.
  • Khan MS, Durrance-Bagale A, Legido-Quigley H, et al. ‘LMICs as reservoirs of AMR’: a comparative analysis of policy discourse on antimicrobial resistance with reference to Pakistan. Health Policy Plan. 2019;34:178–187.
  • Haenssgen MJ, Charoenboon N, Zanello G, et al. Antibiotic knowledge, attitudes, and practices: new insights from cross-sectional rural health behaviour surveys in low- and middle-income Southeast Asia. BMJ Open. 2019;9:11.
  • Pearson M, Chandler C. Knowing antmicrobial resistance in practice: a multi-country qualitative study with human and animal healthcare professionals. Global Health Action. 2019;12:10.
  • Charoenboon N, Haenssgen MJ, Warapikuptanun P, et al. Translating antimicrobial resistance: a case study of context and consequences of antibiotic-related communication in three northern Thai villages. Palgrave Commun. 2019;5:24.
  • Denyer Willis L, Clare Chandler C. Quick fix for care, productivity, hygiene and inequality: reframing the entrenched problem of antibiotic overuse. BMJ Glob Health. 2019;4:6.
  • Laxminarayan R, Duse A, Wattal C, et al. Antibiotic resistance—the need for global solutions. The Lancet Infect Dis. 2013;13:1057–1098.
  • Pinto S. Development without institutions: ersatz medicine and the politics of everyday life in rural north India. Cultural Anthropol. 2004;19:337–364.
  • Nixon SA. The coin model of privilege and critical allyship: implications for health. BMC Public Health. 2019;19:13.
  • Dixon J, MacPherson E, Manyau S, et al. The ‘drug bag’ method: lessons from anthropological studies of antibiotic use in Africa and South-East Asia. Glob Health Action. 2019;12:11.
  • Watkins JA, Wagner F, Gómez-Olivé FX, et al. Rural South African community perceptions of antibiotic access and use: qualitative evidence from a health and demographic surveillance system site. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019;100:1378–1390.
  • Lucas PJ, Uddin MR, Khisa N, et al. Pathways to antibiotics in Bangladesh: a qualitative study investigating how and when households access medicine including antibiotics for humans or animals when they are ill. PLoS ONE. 2019 Nov 22;14:17.
  • Faiz MA, Basher A. Antimicrobial resistance: Bangladesh experience. Reg Health Forum. 2011;15:8.
  • Khan JAM, Trujillo AJ, Ahmed S, et al. Distribution of chronic disease mortality and deterioration in household socioeconomic status in rural Bangladesh: an analysis over a 24-year period. Int J Epidemiol. 2015 Oct 13;44:1917–1926.
  • Ministry of Health Government of Bangladesh. National drug policy. 2016. p. 27.
  • Murshid ME, Haque M. Bangladesh national drug policy 1982-2016 and recommendations in policy aspects. Eurasian J Emerg Med. 2019;18:104–109.
  • Ahmed I, Bodiuzzaman MR, Sultana S. Antibiotic resistance in Bangladesh: a systematic review. Inter J Infect Dis. 2019 Dec 15;2018:54–61.
  • Huq NM, Al-Amin AQ, Howlader SR, et al. Paying out of pocket for healthcare in Bangladesh - a burden on poor? Iran J Public Health. 2015;44:1024–1025.
  • Roy S, Ahmed MU, Uddin BMM, et al. Evaluation of antibiotic susceptibility in wound infections: a pilot study from Bangladesh. F1000Res. 2017;6:12.
  • Levesque J-F, Harris MF, Russell G. Patient-centred access to health care: conceptualising access at the interface of health systems and populations. Int J Equity Health. 2013;12:9.
  • Ahmed SM, Adams AM, Chowdhury M, et al. Changing health-seeking behaviour in Matlab, Bangladesh: do development interventions matter? Health Policy Plan. 2003;18:10.
  • ICDDR B. Health and demographic surveillance system – Matlab household socio-economic census 2014.Bangladesh: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research; 2014.
  • Karar ZA, Alam N, Streatfield PK. Epidemiological transition in rural Bangladesh, 1986 2006. Glob Health Action. 2007;2:9.
  • Alam N, Ali T, Razzaque A, et al. Health & demographic surveillance system profile. Health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) in Matlab, Bangladesh. Int J Epidemiol. 2017 June 13;46:809–816.
  • Wertheim HFL, Chuc NTL, Punpuing S, et al. Community-level antibiotic access and use (ABACUS) in low-and middle-income countries: finding targets for social interventions to improve appropriate antimicrobial use – an observational multi-centre study [version 1; peer review: 2. Wellcome Open Res. 2017 July 17;2:14.
  • Afari-Asiedu S, Kinsman J, Boamah-Kaali E, et al. To sell or not to sell; the differences between regulatory and community demands regarding access to antibiotics in rural Ghana. J Pharm Policy Pract. 2018;11:10.
  • Cambaco O, Menendez YA, Kinsman J, et al. Community knowledge and practices regarding antibiotic use in rural Mozambique: where is the starting point for prevention of antibiotic resistance? BMC Public Health. 2020;20:15.
  • Braun V, Clarke V. Thematic analysis. In: Cooper H, PMC DL, Long AT, et al., editors. APA handbook of research methods in psychology, research designs: quantitative, qualitative, neuropsychological, and biological. Vol. 2. Washington (DC): American Psychological Association; 2012. p. 57–71.
  • Braun V, Clarke V. What can “thematic analysis” offer health and wellbeing researchers? Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. 2014;9:26152.
  • Broom A, Kenny K, Prainsack B. Antimicrobial resistance as a problem of values? Views from three continents. Criti Public Health. 2020;1:13.
  • Doron A, Broom AT. The spectre of superbugs: waste, structural violence and antimicrobial resistance in India. Worldwide Waste J Interdiscip Stud. 2019;2:10.
  • Matin MA, Khan WA, Karim MM, et al. What influences antibiotic sales in rural Bangladesh? A drug dispensers’ perspective. J Pharm Policy Pract. 2020;13:12.
  • Parr J, Lindeboom W, Khanam M, et al. Informal allopathic provider knowledge and practice regarding hypertension in urban and rural Bangladesh. PLoS ONE. 2012;7:e48056.
  • Sudhinaraset M, Ingram M, Kinlaw Lofthouse H, et al. What is the role of informal healthcare providers in developing countries? A systematic review. PLoS ONE. 2013 Feb;8:12.
  • Roy A. Urban informality. Toward an epistemology of planning. J Am Plann Assoc. 2005 Spring;71:147–158.
  • World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund. A vision for primary health care in the 21st century: towards universal health coverage and the sustainable development goal. Geneva: WHO/UNICEF; 2018. p. 64.
  • Afari-Asiedu S, Boakye Oppong F, Tostmann A, et al. Determinants of inappropriate antibiotics use in rural central Ghana using a mixed methods approach. Front Public Health. 2020 Mar 24;8:11.
  • Lambert H, Chen M, Cabral C. Antimicrobial resistance, inflammatory responses: a comparative analysis of pathogenicities, knowledge hybrids and the semantics of antibiotic use. Palgrave Commun. 2019;5:13.
  • Ellis J, Vassilev I, Kennedy A, et al. Help seeking for antibiotics; is the influence of a personal social network relevant? BMC Fam Pract. 2019;20:11.
  • World Health Organization. Global Action Plan on Antimocrobial Resistance. Geneva: WHO; 2015. p. 28.
  • Wall S. Prevention of antibiotic resistance - an epidemiological scoping review to identify research categories and knowledge gaps. Glob Health Action. 2020;12:28.