Immigration withing European Union - Does health immigration make a difference in analgesis use?

Pharmacy Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 156-162

  Väänänen, Minna H ^a   Pietilä, Kirsi ^a   Airaksinen, Marja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Analgesics; Emigration and immigration; Finland; Health services needs and demand; Spain

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 44449158666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18863655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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