Background There have been no studies of the patterns of post-marketing withdrawals of
medicinal products to which adverse reactions have been attributed. We identified medicinal …

Self-medication is of great public health importance as it often bypasses regulatory
mechanisms to assure quality of health care. Nevertheless there are no established …

Background Self-medication plays a key role in public health as it influences both negatively
and positively on the health of individuals and the existing healthcare systems. This is …

Background Access to medicines without prescription is a major contributing factor for self-
medication practices. This study was designed to examine the ratio of non-prescribed …

Background Interventions to reduce the burden of disease and mortality in sub-Saharan
Africa increasingly recognize the important role that drug retailers play in delivering basic …

Introduction The benefits of antibiotics are under threat by self-medication, which culminated
in economic burdening of developing countries, treatment failures, the emergence of …

Background Self-medication makes consumers more health conscious, reduces treatment
burden on healthcare facilities and curtails the cost and time of obtaining access to …

Purpose Given the limiting conditions of the gender roles confronting professional working
women and drawing on spillover theory, the purpose of this paper is to explore the …

Objective: To assess self-medication practices and to evaluate the impact of obtaining
medical knowledge on selfmedication among medical and pharmacy students at Jordan …

Background Pharmacies are a primary source of healthcare services in low and middle
income countries, especially where patient to physician ratio is low. Due to the wide …