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KMID : 0387320010110040070
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Korean Journal of Health Policy and Administration
2001 Volume.11 No. 4 p.70 ~ p.87
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Physicians and Pharmacists Perceptions about the Goal Achievement of the Separation Policy of Drug Prescribing and Dispensing, and Benefit and Loss Caused by the Policy in Busan
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Park Jae-Sung
Nam Eun-Woo
Kwon Young-Chul
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to identify health care providers´ perceptions about the goal achievement and benefit/loss caused by the separation policy of drug prescribing and dispensing after the policy implemented on July 1, 2001. Using stratified sampling method has on the administration area, Ku, 315 physicians and pharmacists were sampled from the rosters of physician and pharmacist association in the city of Busan on 2001. There were 122 and 115 responses from physician and pharmacist sample, respectively.
78.3% of physicians and 50.4% of pharmacists evaluated that the goal of the policy was not achieved. Moreover, 75.3% of physicians and 40.7% of pharmacists did not support the policy. Most physicians and pharmacists considered preventing the citizens with drug abuse and misuses as the most important benefit derived from the policy. However, physicians and pharmacists concerned over raising health care cost that could patients burden. The most important physicians benefit derived from the policy was free choice of I possible medicine that might result in effectiveness of medication. In physicians the most important loss, most physicians worried about that breaking traditional patient and physician relationship might cause physicians authority in treating diseases to be damaged. Pharmacists considered the most important policy benefit as hiked social status resulted from enforcement of profession due to the policy whereas they considered the most significant loss as expected financial problems of small pharmacies compared to that of large pharmacies or pharmacies adjacent to hospitals.
In the current problems of the policy, physician and pharmacists blamed the government for inadequate preparations of the policy implementation. Physicians and pharmacists also considered citizens mature attitudes toward the policy as a crucial success factor.
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KEYWORD
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perception, goal achievement, drug prescription and dispensing, physician, pharmacist
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