Table 5. Summary of influential factors of the irrational use of medicines in China and Vietnam.

Summary by influential factors	China (N = 67)	Vietnam (N = 29)
Health care providers’ lack of skills and knowledge	9(13.4%)	8(27.6%)
Patients’ lack of knowledge	14(20.9%)	10(33.5%)
Poor quality of health services	2(3.0%)	2(6.9%)
Health facility’s inadequate human resources and lack of qualified medical staff	–	3(10.3%)
Pressure from heavy patient load	2(3.0%)	–
Pressure from patients’ demand	1(1.5%)	–
Economic incentive and profits from prescribing medicines	20(30.0%)	4(13.8%)
Insurance status of patients	4(6.0%)	1(3.4%)
Lack of effective control and regulatory mechanisms on medicine use	3(4.5%)	7(24.1%)