The primary goal of INRUD is to promote the rational use of
pharmaceuticals. INRUD's main strategy to achieve this goal
include:
an interdisciplinary
focus, linking clinical and social sciences;
emphasis on understanding behavioural
aspects of drug use,particularly beliefs and motivations of
providers and consumers;
promotion of well-designed research
studies to understand these behavioural factors, leading to
reproducible interventions to improve drug use, and
development of useful tools
for research, including standard research methodologies, simplified
sampling and data collection strategies, and user-accessible
computer software.
