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• Researchers led by Dr Marco J Haenssgen at the University of Warwick find that precarity – in employment, personal circumstances, social status – is among the biggest factors in affecting whether patients use antibiotics correctly
• Whereas poverty did not have an impact, precarity pushed up to 1 in 2 people into inappropriate antibiotic use, suggesting that this could be a challenge in higher income as well as in developing countries
• Research demonstrates that individuals cannot always be blamed for misuse of antibiotics, and that better sustainable development policy is needed
• Efforts to improve security of livelihoods globally could also help tackle anti-microbial resistance as a side-effect