Antimicrobial Prescribing, Population Use and Resistance, Impact in Global Health, 2nd Volume

Dear Colleagues,

The first volume of the Special Issue “Antimicrobial Prescribing, Population Use and Resistance, Impact in Global Health” was published last year. It was a great success and published nine papers, thus encouraging us to open a second volume on the same topic.

As a continuation of the Special Issue published in 2022, this second volume will address various public health strategies and interventions, as well as the application of innovations in the management of antibiotics at the hospital level in order to reduce the rate of antimicrobial resistance in the future. This Special Issue welcomes original research papers, reviews, qualitative research, and perspectives.

Potential topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Novel methods for the promotion of appropriate antibiotic utilization;
2. Influence of antimicrobial utilization changes on antimicrobial resistance;
3. Antimicrobial utilization in special populations (e.g., paediatrics, geriatrics, emergency medicine, chronic diseases at the primary care level…);
4. Knowledge, attitudes and practice regarding antibiotics utilization and antimicrobial resistance in the public and/or healthcare workers;
5. New strategies to reduce antimicrobial resistances in hospitalized patients;
6. New approaches to public health interventions for the improvement of antibiotic utilization;
7. Risk-stratified approaches to treating common infections in hospitalized patients.

Dr. Juan Manuel Vázquez-Lago
Dr. Ana Estany-Gestal
Dr. Angel Salgado-Barreira
Guest Editors

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• epidemiology
• social behavior
• antibiotic resistance
• social factors
• attitudes
• knowledge
• practice
• qualitative research
• public health interventions
• antibiotic prescription
• community care