[Therapeutic compliance and its pharmaceutical aspects. Basic research].

In present-day drug therapy, the level of therapeutic compliance is a marked professional problem. Its consequences are a challenge for providers of health care and a concern for pharmacists as subjects working in immediate contact with the general public of patients. The present paper reports an evaluation of the level of compliance and analyses its components.

[Pharmacies during the transformation of health care. IV. Sociologic study of pharmacy service].

In Slovakia, similarly as in the Czech Republic, marked changes in the pharmaceutical services have gradually been taking place since 1990. Principal legal and organizational changes have been connected also with the extent and standard of provided pharmaceutical services. The present paper reports the results of a questionnaire research regarding the evaluation of the standard of pharmaceutical services in the year 1995 where there existed both state-owned and private public pharmacies.

The pharmacoepidemiological phenomenon of age-dependent drug consumption and analysis of its regression models.

A randomized pharmacoepidemiological full-year, 7x realized experiment was carried out with the purpose of analyzing the age dependence of drug volumes consumed by the population, using financial and physical measuring units to express per-capita consumption. The experiment was performed for a complete metropolitan population, representing 0.5 million people.

Pharmaco-epidemiological study of drug consumption in the preproductive age period.

Based on the global hypothesis of drug consumption being a function of human age and growing with its increase, an analysis of that dependence was carried out in the preproductive interval of the human lifetime. The experiment included a total metropolitan population of 450,000, involving all outpatient prescriptions of all physicians in the area. The paper shows results obtained over a period of two years.