Abstract
Rational use of drugs and drug safety monitoring have become matters of life and death throughout the world during the last decades. These issues are of even greater concern in developing countries because of their limited economic resources their less than ideal health conditions their large populations which make any control programme difficult and their high prevalence of specific diseases. In developed countries pharmacoepidemiology has the potential whether as an academic or a service discipline to fill the gap between basic pharmacology science and its application to practice in populations. Unfortunately most developing countries have failed to recognize pharmacoepidemiology as a service specialty and have neglected its potential contribution to the solution of major health care problems. As a result pharmacoepidemiology studies are sporadic and rare in this part of the world - a multifaceted problem which will be discussed below. (excerpt)
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