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Insecure livelihoods hindering efforts to combat anti-microbial resistance globally – EurekAlert
Patients living in precarious circumstances are less likely to use antibiotics appropriately according to a new study from the University of Warwick, suggesting…
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- Researchers led by University of Warwick find that precarity – in employment, personal circumstances, social status – is among the biggest factors in affecting whether patients use antibiotics correctly
- Whereas poverty did not have an impact, precarity pushed up to 1 in 2 people into inappropriate antibiotic use, suggesting that this could be a challenge in higher income as well as…
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