Exploring health seeking behavior, medicine use and self medication in urban and rural Pakistan

Southern Med Review

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 32-34

  Hussain, Shahzad ^a   Malik, Farnaz ^a   Hameed, Abdul ^b   Ahmad, Safia ^b   Riaz, Humayun ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTACID AGENT; ANTIALLERGIC AGENT; ANTIANEMIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTITUSSIVE AGENT; MINERAL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION; PARACETAMOL; STEROID; TRANQUILIZER; VITAMIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG STORAGE; DRUG USE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICATION ERROR; PAKISTAN; RURAL POPULATION; SELF MEDICATION; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

EID: 78049248913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11742704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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