Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety Concept: Indian Scenario

Abstract

The concept of Pharmacoepidemiology was come in existence in late seventies. It is a specialty which links both clinical pharmacology and epidemiology. This specialty ply important role in measurement of success or failure of drug therapy based on various factors which affect use of drugs by the community. In Indian scenario research in pharmacology an important medical specialty has suffered due to many reasons. Shortage of financial support from the administration of many medical colleges, difficulty in procuring and maintaining experimental animals or patients/healthy volunteers are the few reasons have literally pushed many researchers to choose pharmacoepidemiology as their area of research. It doesn’t mean that Indian pharmacologists are really having research interest in this sub specialty. It is more for reasons of convenience rather than that of genuine interest.