Data for: "The good, the bad, and the ugly: Compliance of e-pharmacies serving India and Kenya with regulatory requirements and best practices"
Palafox, B
(2025).
Data for: "The good, the bad, and the ugly: Compliance of e-pharmacies serving India and Kenya with regulatory requirements and best practices".
[Dataset].
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
10.17037/DATA.00004475.
(2025).
Data for: "The good, the bad, and the ugly: Compliance of e-pharmacies serving India and Kenya with regulatory requirements and best practices".
[Dataset].
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
10.17037/DATA.00004475.
The aim of this study was to assess the characteristics and business practices of e-pharmacies, and their compliance with global best practice guidelines and national regulatory requirements. Study staff reviewed the websites and apps of all e-pharmacies serving retail customers in two Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs): India, which has a very large e-pharmacy market, but is yet to enact formal e-pharmacy regulations, and Kenya, which has a smaller market, but with developed regulations. All data used in this analysis was available in the public domain at the time of data collection.
Additional Information
The overarching project of which this analysis was part received approval by the ethics committees of The George Institute for Global Health (Project number: 26/2022), Strathmore University Business School (Ref. no: SU-ISERC1475/22), and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (Ref. no: 28055).
Keywords
e-pharmacy, LMICs, regulatory requirements| Item Type | Dataset |
|---|---|
| Description of data capture | Study staff reviewed the websites and apps of all e-pharmacies serving retail customers in two Low and Middle Income Countries: (1) India, which has a very large e-pharmacy market, but is yet to enact formal e-pharmacy regulations, and (2) Kenya, which has a smaller market, but with developed regulations. |
| Capture method | Observation, Compilation/Synthesis |
| Collection Period |
From To 1 January 2023 31 May 2023 |
| Date | 6 January 2025 |
| Language(s) of written materials | English |
| Creator(s) |
Palafox, B
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| Associated roles | Goodman, C (Principal Investigator) |
| LSHTM Faculty/Department | Faculty of Public Health and Policy > Dept of Global Health and Development |
| Research Centre | Global Health Economics Centre |
| Participating Institutions | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, The George Institute for Global Health, India, Strathmore Business School, Nairobi City, Kenya |
| Funders |
Project Funder Grant Number Funder URI The good, the bad, and the ugly: Compliance of e-pharmacies serving India and Kenya with regulatory requirements and best practices MR/V02096X/1 https://www.ukri.org/what-we-do/browse-our-areas-of-investment-and-support/health-systems-research-initiative/ |
| Date Deposited | 07 Jan 2025 11:09 |
| Last Modified | 07 Jan 2025 11:09 |
| Publisher | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
Website_review_dataset.xlsx
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Website_review_codebook.html
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info - Codebook for website review dataset
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