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Self-medication among pregnant women in Ghana: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Heliyon, 2022 Background: Despite the associated health risks of self-medication during pregnancy, recent evidence suggests that the phenomena persist in most countries.
Richmond Opoku +2 more
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Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2021 Background Globally, self-medication is a common practice, and an increasingly perceived necessity to relieve burdens on health services. However, inappropriate self-medication may result to reduced health outcomes, increased antimicrobial resistance and
W. Akande-Sholabi +2 more
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Antibiotics, 2021 Self-medication with antibiotics is a major contributing factor to antimicrobial resistance. Prior research examining factors associated with antibiotic self-medication has focused on an individual’s knowledge about antibiotics, antibiotic usage ...
A. Zhang +5 more
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Self-medication practices and their characteristics among Iranian university students
BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, 2022 Background Self-medication in students, as educated people, is one of the most important health issues. It is known that inappropriate self-medication is harmful for individuals as it has potential risks, disrupts the drug market and increases the per ...
Rohaneh Rahimisadegh +5 more
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Self-medication and its typology in Chinese elderly population: A cross-sectional study
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 PurposeThis paper aims to evaluate the prevalence of self-medication and its associated factors among the Chinese elderly. Also, according to whether the elderly communicate with doctors (no matter before or after self-medication), we aimed to categorize
Shangren Qin +4 more
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The Other Side of Medicalization: Self-Medicalization and Self-Medication [PDF]
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 2013 The concept of medicalization has given rise to considerable discussion in the social sciences, focusing especially on the extension of medicine's jurisdiction and its hold over our bodies through the reduction of social phenomena to individual biological pathologies.
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Heliyon, 2021 The objective of the present study was to assess the perceptions, knowledge, and awareness of self-medication practice among the university students in Nepal.
Krishnandan Shah, S. Halder, Syed Haider
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Science, 2013 Animal self-medication against parasites is more widespread than previously thought, with profound implications for host-parasite biology.
de Roode, J. C. +2 more
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Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2005 Nerve growth factor (NGF) is an important substance in the skin, where it can modulate nerve maintenance and repair. However, the direct link between NGF and pruritic disease such as atopic dermatitis is not yet fully understood. To determine whether NGF
Norikazu Takano +2 more
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Monitoring self-medication [PDF]
Expert Opinion on Drug Safety, 2003 Self-medication, using non-prescription drugs, is beneficial to patients, healthcare professionals, the pharmaceutical industry and governments. Although many non-prescription medications are effective, misuse and abuse of these products can arise.
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