ReviewJAC-antimicrobial resistance2021
Understanding antibiotic use: practices, structures and networks.
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Who cites it
37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The intersection of the social determinants of health and antimicrobial resistance in human populations: a systematic review.BMJ global health · 2025Pooled it
- Remote realities: In-depth conversations on antimicrobial stewardship in remote Indigenous communities using a One Health approach.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Article
- Reviewing ecosystems of evidence: synthesising the evidence on the commercial determinants of health from a complex systems perspective.Systematic reviews · 2026Article
- Applying a gender and equity matrix for a contextualized antimicrobial stewardship intervention in Pakistan.Health policy and planning · 2026Article
- Strategies to improve antimicrobial stewardship in surgery: insights from an ethnographic study.BMJ open · 2026Article
- From the lens of early-career researchers: bridging science, technology, arts, and humanities to tackle antimicrobial resistance.Nature communications · 2026Review
- 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
- Design framework to develop sustainable innovations for addressing One Health challenges.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Antibiotic Economies: The Economisation of Antibiotic Use in Australia and Implications for the Mitigation of Antimicrobial Resistance.Sociology of health & illness · 2025Article
- Participatory process to design community-driven solutions for reducing antibiotic use in chicken production in Vietnam.PloS one · 2025Article
- Antimicrobials as cornerstones and quick fixes Zimbabwean in healthcare and society: Health practitioners´ critical reflections on two stories of antimicrobial use as part of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) education.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Evaluating methods to explore antibiotic use on smallholding pig farms in peri-urban Kenya.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Uniting disciplines against antimicrobial resistance (AMR): highlights from a multidisciplinary inaugural AMR summit.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2025Review
- Does One Health need an ontological turn?Critical public health · 2025Article
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- Barriers and pathways to environmental surveillance of antibiotic resistance in middle- and low-income settings: a qualitative exploratory key expert study.Global health action · 2024Article
- Intersecting social and environmental determinants of multidrug-resistant urinary tract infections in East Africa beyond antibiotic use.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Influences on use of antibiotics without prescription by the public in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative evidence.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2024Review
- Barriers and facilitators of implementation of new antibacterial technologies in patient care: an interview study with orthopedic healthcare professionals at a university hospital.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Quality, availability and suitability of antimicrobial stewardship guidance: a multinational qualitative study.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2024Article
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Abstract
In this article, we consider how social sciences can help us to understand the rising use of antibiotics globally. Drawing on ethnography as a way to research how we are in the world, we explore scholarship that situates antibiotic use in relation to interactions of pathogens, humans, animals and the environment in the context of globalization, changes in agriculture and urbanization. We group this research into three areas: practices, structures and networks. Much of the public health and related social research concerning antimicrobial resistance has focused on antibiotic use as a practice, with research characterizing how antibiotics are used by patients, farmers, fishermen, drug sellers, clinicians and others. Researchers have also positioned antibiotic use as emergent of political-economic structures, shedding light on how working and living conditions, quality of care, hygiene and sanitation foster reliance on antibiotics. A growing body of research sees antibiotics as embedded in networks that, in addition to social and institutional networks, comprise physical, technical and historical connections such as guidelines, supply chains and reporting systems. Taken together, this research emphasizes the multiple ways that antibiotics have become built into daily life. Wider issues, which may be invisible without explication through ethnographic approaches, need to be considered when addressing antibiotic use. Adopting the complementary vantage points of practices, networks and structures can support the diversification of our responses to AMR.
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