{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["28(6)"],"submitter":["Hughes R"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>Increasing recognition of the importance of medicine sellers in low-resource settings has emerged alongside assumptions that their motives and capacities primarily relate to profit maximization. This article suggests a need to reframe thinking about the role of medicine sellers in developing country health systems.<h4>Methods</h4>We used in-depth interviews to explore perceptions of medicine seller roles among a restricted random sample of 20 medicine sellers in North-West Cameroon. Interviews and analysis explored self-perception of their work/role, community perceptions, skills and knowledge, regulation, future plans, links with the formal health system and diversity among medicine sellers.<h4>Results</h4>Medicine sellers in our study were a varied, yet distinct group."],"journal":["Health policy and planning"],"pagination":["636-46"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC3753882"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Medicine sellers' perspectives on their role in providing health care in North-West Cameroon: a qualitative study."],"pmcid":["PMC3753882"],"pubmed_authors":["Hughes R","Chandler CR","Mbacham W","Mangham-Jefferies LJ"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Medicine sellers' perspectives on their role in providing health care in North-West Cameroon: a qualitative study.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>Increasing recognition of the importance of medicine sellers in low-resource settings has emerged alongside assumptions that their motives and capacities primarily relate to profit maximization. This article suggests a need to reframe thinking about the role of medicine sellers in developing country health systems.<h4>Methods</h4>We used in-depth interviews to explore perceptions of medicine seller roles among a restricted random sample of 20 medicine sellers in North-West Cameroon. Interviews and analysis explored self-perception of their work/role, community perceptions, skills and knowledge, regulation, future plans, links with the formal health system and diversity among medicine sellers.<h4>Results</h4>Medicine sellers in our study were a varied, yet distinct group.","dates":{"release":"2013-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2013 Sep","modification":"2025-04-04T22:06:42.33Z","creation":"2019-03-27T00:13:22Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC3753882","cross_references":{"pubmed":["23197432"],"doi":["10.1093/heapol/czs103"]}}