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. 2007 Oct 3;3(127):2239-43.

[Self-medication amongst illegal Latino-American immigrants: necessary or inapropriate]

[Article in French]
M Besson  1 , J Desmeules, H Wolff, J M Gaspoz
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  • PMID: 17970159

[Self-medication amongst illegal Latino-American immigrants: necessary or inapropriate]

[Article in French]
M Besson et al. Rev Med Suisse. .

Abstract

Self-medication is well known risk in Latin America. This situation can partly be explain by the difficult access to doctors and poorly regulated drug sales. Illegal Latino-American immigrants import their practice of self-medication and their drugs with them. The economic advantage of this practice makes it popular and confronts medical practitioners to question the benefice/risk of such behavior. Taking the particular situation of illegal Latino-American immigrants, this review discusses the necessity of abording systematically the question of self-medication during a medical consultation.

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