| Summary: | Background: Many countries have used WHO indicators to evaluate the implementation of National Drug Policy (NDP), and data are available in WHO documents. It would be interesting to evaluate the currently available country data, and to see if there is a particular pattern of relationship among indicators' values with the country characteristics. It is expected that the results will provide a rough guidance to country that already evaluated the NDP implementa¬tion in strategy to improve the country achievement. The objective: to evaluate country charac¬teristics, to confirm the pattern of relationship between the NDP indicators' values and the country characteristics, and to determine a rough guidance for identifying apropriate strategy. Method: Its a descriptive-analytical, retrospective data collection. Results of evaluation of 13 NDPs were analyzed, including Bulgaria, Chad Colombia, Guinea, India (Andhra Pradesh), Indonesia, Mali, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Country data were arrayed in background, structure, process, and outcome categories. Data anayzed using content analysis, literature confirmation, cluster analysis, and lambda correlation analysis.
Result: Countries were classified into three characters representing their indicator values. The results showed that information and continuing education on drug use capacity was related (p
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