Relationship of The Availability of Phamacist with Characteristics of Primary Health Center and Pharmacy Practice in Health Center

摘要

Background: Government Regulation Number 51 of 2009 on Pharmacy Practice states that pharmacy staff is those who practice pharmacy, namely pharmacists and technical pharmacy staff. According to chapter 2, dispensing of prescription drugs, among others in primary health center (PHC), must be done by a pharmacist. The availability of pharmacy staff relating to PHC characteristics and pharmacy practice is still unclear. Methods: This study is a follow-up study through an analysis of secondary data of National Health Facility Research of 2011 which was done cross-sectionally on PHCs in districts/cities, regarding the availability of pharmacy staff in PHC and has been conducted in August and September 2012. The objectives of this study are to obtain information on the availability of pharmacy staff in PHC, the availability of pharmacy staff based on the characteristics of PHC and pharmacy practices based on the availability of pharmacy staff in PHC. Data confirmation was done through in-depth interviews with HRD staff of Bekasi and Bogor City Health Office and pharmacy staff in two PHCs in each city. Data was analyzed by comparing the availability of pharmacy staff based on the characteristics of PHC and pharmacy practice based on the availability of pharmacy staff in PHC. Statistical analysis was conducted using frequency distribution; Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis and Kendalls tau b tests. Results: Results of the study showed that only 17.5% of PHCs in Indonesia nationally had pharmacist and there were 32.2% PHCs with no pharmacy staff at all. There was statistically siginificant difference in the availability of pharmacy staff among PHCs based on their locus, sort of PHC, rural/urban area and employment status of pharmacy staff. Pharmacist performed better in pharmacy practice, drug management and complete LP-LPO reporting than who was also consecutively better than non-parmacy staff.