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Published on: July 10, 2017
[Self-medication amongst illegal Latino-American immigrants: necessary or inapropriate]
M Besson1, J Desmeules, H Wolff
1Service de medecine de premier recours, HUG, 121 1 Genève. marius.besson@hcuge.ch
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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