ReviewBMJ global health2019
Quick fix for care, productivity, hygiene and inequality: reframing the entrenched problem of antibiotic overuse.
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94 citing papers in PubMed.
- The effects of communicating illness diagnostic and treatment information and C-reactive protein test results on people's antibiotic expectations.British journal of health psychology · 2025Trial
- Remote realities: In-depth conversations on antimicrobial stewardship in remote Indigenous communities using a One Health approach.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Article
- Antibiotic use in Türkiye: Everyday encounters of translating policy and negotiating rationality.Medical anthropology quarterly · 2026Article
- Divergent stakeholder perspectives on antimicrobial resistance and One Health in Ghana: a qualitative study.BMC global and public health · 2026Article
- Perspectives and Challenges of Healthcare Professionals, Patients, and Caregivers Regarding Utilizing Antibiotics and Implementing Antibiotic Stewardship in Healthcare Facilities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Antimicrobial resistance as a multicultural challenge: a decolonized approach to science communication in the Global South.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2026Review
- Strategies to improve antimicrobial stewardship in surgery: insights from an ethnographic study.BMJ open · 2026Article
- What will it take for behavior to change? Findings from a baseline evaluation of an intervention to reduce antimicrobial use among smallholder poultry farmers in Zimbabwe.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- Community engagement strategies for antimicrobial resistance control and interventions.BMJ public health · 2026Review
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- "Miss, I want itchy medicine": Understanding what, why, and how antibiotics are used in Central Java province, Indonesia through the drug bag method.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Interconnections between the food system and antimicrobial resistance: A systems-informed umbrella review from a One Health perspective.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Review
- Corruption, poverty and inflation as enablers of AMR in low- and middle-income countries: finding the link and addressing the gaps.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2025Review
- Community engagement to support public health: mixed-method evaluation evidence on COVID-19 attitudes and practices in Lao PDR.Global health action · 2025Article
- Antimicrobial resistance, equity and justice in low- and middle-income countries: an intersectional critical interpretive synthesis.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Healthcare workers´ perspectives on antibiotic utilization in children under five years of age in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2025Article
- Antibiotic prescribing practices, perceived constraints, and views on antimicrobial resistance among general and orthopedic surgeons in central India.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Strengthening antimicrobial stewardship in public health facilities in Malawi through a participatory epidemiology approach.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2025Article
- The social burden of antimicrobial resistance: what is it, how can we measure it, and why does it matter?JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2025Review
34 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major challenge of our time. A key global objective is to reduce antibiotic use (ABU), in order to reduce resistance caused by antimicrobial pressure. This is often set as a 'behaviour change' issue, locating intervention efforts in the knowledge and attitudes of individual prescribers and users of medicines. Such approaches have had limited impact and fall short of addressing wider drivers of antibiotic use. To address the magnitude of antibiotic overuse requires a wider lens to view our relationships with these medicines. This article draws on ethnographic research from East Africa to answer the question of what roles antibiotics play beyond their immediate curative effects. We carried out interviews, participant observation and documentary analysis over a decade in northeast Tanzania and eastern and central Uganda. Our findings suggest that antibiotics have become a 'quick fix' in our modern societies. They are a
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