Self-medication among Hong Kong Chinese

Prevalência e características dos eventos adversos a medicamentos no Brasil

“…Saúde Pública 2018; 34(4):e00040017 medical care and consume more medicines, prescribed or not, in the attempt to solve their health problems 6,31 . Patients in this study that self-medicated showed higher ADE prevalence, corroborating the studies by Lam et al 9 in Hong Kong, Arrais 6 in Fortaleza, and Yu et al 32 in Korea Republic.…”

Prevalência e características dos eventos adversos a medicamentos no Brasil

“…Saúde Pública 2018; 34(4):e00040017 medical care and consume more medicines, prescribed or not, in the attempt to solve their health problems 6,31 . Patients in this study that self-medicated showed higher ADE prevalence, corroborating the studies by Lam et al 9 in Hong Kong, Arrais 6 in Fortaleza, and Yu et al 32 in Korea Republic.…”

If They Get Sick, They are in Trouble: Health Care Restructuring, User Charges, and Equity in Vietnam

“…Antibiotics, the most profitable drugs according to the respondent pharmacists, represented 17 percent of sales, with ampicillin being the most commonly sold drug. Similar results are reported for other developing countries with private pharmacies, where individuals often bypass professional health providers and directly purchase drugs (51,52).…”

Prevalence of Self-Medication among Urban and Rural Population of Islamabad, Pakistan

“…Our results showed 61.2% prevalence rate in Islamabad population, which is very similar to a study conducted in Faisalabad, Pakistan [11]. It is higher than Hong Kong China (32.5%) [12], while lower than Slovenia (92.3%) [3]. Regional, educational, socio-cultural conditions, and different methodologies used for determining self-medication may be among the reasons for the wide variations among these studies.…”

Prevalência e características dos eventos adversos a medicamentos no Brasil

“…Saúde Pública 2018; 34(4):e00040017 medical care and consume more medicines, prescribed or not, in the attempt to solve their health problems 6,31 . Patients in this study that self-medicated showed higher ADE prevalence, corroborating the studies by Lam et al 9 in Hong Kong, Arrais 6 in Fortaleza, and Yu et al 32 in Korea Republic.…”

If They Get Sick, They are in Trouble: Health Care Restructuring, User Charges, and Equity in Vietnam

“…Antibiotics, the most profitable drugs according to the respondent pharmacists, represented 17 percent of sales, with ampicillin being the most commonly sold drug. Similar results are reported for other developing countries with private pharmacies, where individuals often bypass professional health providers and directly purchase drugs (51,52).…”

Prevalence of Self-Medication among Urban and Rural Population of Islamabad, Pakistan

“…Our results showed 61.2% prevalence rate in Islamabad population, which is very similar to a study conducted in Faisalabad, Pakistan [11]. It is higher than Hong Kong China (32.5%) [12], while lower than Slovenia (92.3%) [3]. Regional, educational, socio-cultural conditions, and different methodologies used for determining self-medication may be among the reasons for the wide variations among these studies.…”

Prevalência e características dos eventos adversos a medicamentos no Brasil

“…Saúde Pública 2018; 34(4):e00040017 medical care and consume more medicines, prescribed or not, in the attempt to solve their health problems 6,31 . Patients in this study that self-medicated showed higher ADE prevalence, corroborating the studies by Lam et al 9 in Hong Kong, Arrais 6 in Fortaleza, and Yu et al 32 in Korea Republic.…”

If They Get Sick, They are in Trouble: Health Care Restructuring, User Charges, and Equity in Vietnam

“…Antibiotics, the most profitable drugs according to the respondent pharmacists, represented 17 percent of sales, with ampicillin being the most commonly sold drug. Similar results are reported for other developing countries with private pharmacies, where individuals often bypass professional health providers and directly purchase drugs (51,52).…”

Prevalence of Self-Medication among Urban and Rural Population of Islamabad, Pakistan

“…Our results showed 61.2% prevalence rate in Islamabad population, which is very similar to a study conducted in Faisalabad, Pakistan [11]. It is higher than Hong Kong China (32.5%) [12], while lower than Slovenia (92.3%) [3]. Regional, educational, socio-cultural conditions, and different methodologies used for determining self-medication may be among the reasons for the wide variations among these studies.…”