Knowledge, Attitudes, and Usage of Apitherapy for Disease Prevention and Treatment among Undergraduate Pharmacy Students in Lithuania

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Trumbeckaite, Sonata ^a   Dauksiene, Jurgita ^a   Bernatoniene, Jurga ^a   Janulis, Valdimaras ^a  

^a LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPOLIS; ROYAL JELLY;

ADULT; APITHERAPY; ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HONEY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHARMACY STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROPHYLAXIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT;

EID: 84949895056     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/172502     Document Type: Article

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