Impact of Covid-19 containment on community pharmaceutical spending in Andalusia - Spain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the field of health, the year 2020 will be remembered for testing (stressing) all health institutions and their forms of management (centralised and decentralised). The everyday activity of primary and hospital care was significantly altered by the introduction of telephone consultations, which reduce the number of visits to health centres or hospitals and are still relevant today in the face of successive waves of the pandemic.

Objective

To analyse whether population confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on the dispensing of medications in community pharmacies and the associated spending during the period March-July 2020 in Andalusia (Spain).

Methods

A time series analysis applying econometric model analysis techniques to confirm or rul

SUBMITTER: Florido Alba F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8234708 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature