J. Reynoso Vázquez

Evaluation of Prescribing Antibiotics Used in Children Younger than 5 years with Acute Respiratory Infections

Describing how the process of medical prescription of antibiotics as a primary demand for medical care in the world is addressed; and the inherent factors to that process in health systems from the perspective of public policies. A literature review of research was performed in order to allow establishing a critical analysis regarding the art of prescribing antibiotics in children under 5 with IRA’s. There are works of research showing which and how antibiotics are used, but a few studies of drug use in the medical units of primary care in Mexico have given evidence of the regulation or decrease in antibiotic prescription since most of the times do not contribute to relieve symptoms or the cure of the disease breaking the mandate of the OMS for the control of this disease and further; these publications focus their evaluation on the description of the problem without local intervention proposals adjusted to primary care to modify that behavior. It is clear that there is recognition of rational or irrational use of antibiotics, however these studies do not describe the installation of interdisciplinary committees to the interior of our country to carry out or execute the objectives of the APUA strengthening the medicine surveillance through the generation of public policies to watch how and what for they are used.