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Fig. 2 | International Journal for Equity in Health

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From: Urban-rural inequality regarding drug prescriptions in primary care facilities – a pre-post comparison of the National Essential Medicines Scheme of China

Fig. 2

Four-quadrant view: improving of indicators vs urban-rural inequality. Four-quadrant view of drug prescription indicators: improving of indicators versus urban-rural inequality, 2009-2010. Group (a): I5 - Percentage of drugs prescribed from the essential drug list, shows improvement in both average level and equality; Group (b): I2 - Percentage of prescriptions requiring antibiotics, I3 - Percentage of prescriptions requiring glucocorticoids: these -indicators show improved urbanrural equality but with limited changes in average levels Group (c): I6 - Average expenditure per prescription, shows improvement in average level but with enlarged inequality; Group (d): I4 - Percentage of prescriptions requiring injections, shows poor performance in both average level and equality; Group (e): I1 - Average number of drugs per prescription, shows little changes in both average level and equality

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