The Drug Compliance
Definition:
The extent to which the patient follows medical instructions.
The extent to which a person’s behavior—taking medication, following a diet, and/or executing lifestyle changes—corresponds with agreed recommendations from a healthcare provider.
The Impact of Poor Compliance
- When we are sick, working is hard and learning is harder still.
- Illness blunts our creativity, cuts out opportunities.
- Unless the consequences of illness are prevented, or at least minimized, illness undermines people, and leads them into suffering, despair, and poverty.
Kofi Annan