Table 2 Attitudes toward the liberalization reforms before and after the introduction 2009
Expectations and perceived effects | Before the reforms: positive expectations | Before the reforms: negative expectations | After the reforms: positive and neutral outcomes | After the reforms: negative outcomes | After the reforms: negative unexpected outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Accessibility | Better accessibility to pharmacies | Better accessibility to pharmacies | |||
Less accessibility to prescription medicines | |||||
Ideas | Development of ideas | A lack of development of ideas | A lack of development of ideas | A lack of development of ideas | |
Improve specific insufficiencies | Better service and medicine use | ||||
Health effects | More focus on improving the use of medicines | Less focus on improving the use of medicines | |||
Less connection between community pharmacies and other health care | |||||
Negative health effects and lower increase in number of pharmacies (the non-prescription medicines reform) | Negative health effects (the non-prescription medicines reform) | ||||
Other effects | More focus on commercial goods |