Self-medication amongst illegal Latino-American immigrants: Necessary or inapropriate;Automédication chez les sans-papiers latino-américains: Entre le nécessaire et l'inapproprié

Revue Medicale Suisse

Volumn 3, Issue 127, 2007, Pages 2239-2243

  Besson, Marius ^a   Desmeules, Jules ^b   Wolff, Hans ^a   Gaspoz, Jean Michel ^a  

^a SERVICE DE MÉDECINE DE PREMIER RECOURS   (Switzerland)

^b Service de Pharmacologie et Toxicologie Cliniques   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

CONSULTATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SELF MEDICATION; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; SELF MEDICATION; SWITZERLAND; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 35548973103     PISSN: 16609379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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