The medicine use and corresponding subjective health complaints among adolescents, a cross-national survey

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 424-431

  Gobina, Inese ^a   Välimaa, Raili ^b   Tynjälä, Jorma ^b   Villberg, Jari ^b   Villerusa, Anita ^a   Iannotti, Ronald J ^c   Godeau, Emmanuelle ^d   Gabhainn, Saoirse Nic ^e   Andersen, Anette ^f   Holstein, Bjørn E ^f  

^a RIGA STRADINS UNIVERSITY   (Latvia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Health complaints; Medicine use

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEADACHE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSOMNIA; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NERVOUSNESS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; STOMACH PAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953062732     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.2102     Document Type: Article

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