Investigation of the causal nature between alcohol/drug misuse and mental health problems, as well as the access to healthcare and utilisation of healthcare among adolescents who use alcohol and drugs in hazardous ways should be addressed in future studies.
Thus, the WHO research utilisation project was conceived as an integrated whole in which retrospective assessment of research utilisation in policy-making would examine one step in a process that should eventually lead to health and health equity gains [ 24].
These would be used to give an account of the impact of research on the policy-making in the specific context of each of the countries participating in the WHO research utilisation project.
WHO defines 'drug utilisation' as 'the marketing, distribution, prescription, and use of drugs in a society, with special emphasis on the medical, social, and economic consequences'.
The role of research utilisation in policy-making is seen as a key element in the growing interest within WHO on research utilisation and its assessment [ 3, 24].
In our study, we focused on patients with asthma who required healthcare utilisation (who visited hospitals and received a physician's diagnosis and care).
These results are coherent with findings reported by Lemming and Calsyn [ 30] who also studied utilisation of services for patients with SMD.
This finding is contrary to the results of Hoffmann et al. who found that utilisation of antidementia drug treatment increased with age in the German population [ 15].
Despite high attrition and low utilisation, of those who had reported use of the website at six months 39 (63%) rated it easy or very easy to use at six months, and 49 (78%) rated it as clear or very clear.
Utilisation of Lipozyme RM IM (Rhizomucor miehei lipase) allowed the formation of a mixture consisting of 50% monoglyceride, 34.6% diglyceride and 8.4% triglyceride, which fulfills the requirements established by the World Health Organization (WHO) for use as a food emulsifier.
