BACKGROUND The private retail drug shops market in Bangladesh is largely unregulated and unaccountable, giving rise to irrational use of drugs and high Out-of-pocket expenditure on health. These shops are served by salespersons with meagre or no formal training in dispensing. METHOD This facility-based cross-sectional study was undertaken to investigate how the drug shops currently operate vi...

Abstract Inspectors are the executing branch of state regulation. Existing literature focuses on their tasks and operations, mostly with regard to commitments complex relations inspectees. The present study explores a heretofore-unexamined issue: playing out inspection in sociopolitical context national conflict discriminatory majority-minority relations. Namely, it work inspectors social servi...