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Abstract
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INTRODUCTION
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the major public health challenges worldwide with an impact on increasing morbidity, mortality and costs.1,2 Inappropriate use of antimicrobials is the most important cause of emerging resistance of microorganisms in the community and hospitals.3,4 Antibiotic use is closely related to the attitudes and behaviour of populations. Insufficient knowledge on antibiotic use and resistance is strongly correlated with increased use of these drugs in communities.5,6
High antibiotic consumption is the result of many factors, such are non-restrictive prescription by physicians, over the counter sales, lack of consistent policies on antibiotic usage and patient exposure to increasingly more resistant microorganisms.7,8
Kosovo, with a population approaching 2 million in an area of 10, sq-km, is located in the south-east of Europe in the region of the Balkans. Health care in Kosovo has undergone important reforms in the last decade and faces immense difficulties and obstacles, the most important of which are a lack of political commitment and scarce resources.9 No health insurance system has been established yet, which represents a key obstacle to efforts to improve the health care sector. The budget for the healthcare system in Kosovo for