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". [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00004475.

Palafox, B. Data for: "The good, the bad, and the ugly: Compliance of e-pharmacies serving India and Kenya with regulatory requirements and best practices" [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2025. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00004475.

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". [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00004475.

Description

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.

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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.

Data capture method

Observation, Compilation/Synthesis

Data Collection Period

From	To
1 January 2023	31 May 2023

Date (Date submitted to LSHTM repository)

6 January 2025

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Palafox, B
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

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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	UKRI Health Systems Research Initiative (FCDO, MRC, Wellcome Trust)	MR/V02096X/1	https://www.ukri.org/what-we-do/browse-our-areas-of-investment-and-support/health-systems-research-initiative/

Additional Information

Date Deposited	07 Jan 2025 11:09
Last Modified	07 Jan 2025 11:09
Publisher	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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