Utilization of medicines among Filipinos with diabetes: Determinants of health outcomes

• Main Author: Ngo, Frances Lois U.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: Diabetics—Drug use—Philippines—Manila; Drug utilization—Philippines—Manila; Diabetics—Philippines—Manila—Social conditions; Medicine and Health
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/6562; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=13574&context=etd_masteral
• Institution: De La Salle University

Diabetes is a non-communicable disease which accounts for the fifth among the top causes of mortality and is observed as a comorbidity in diseases commonly affecting Filipinos such as hypertension and cardiovascular disease. The high prevalence of diabetes makes it important for patients to have ade...