Jiménez Rubio, Dolores and Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina (2010) Diferencias en la automedicación en la población adulta española según el país de origen. Gaceta sanitaria, 24 (2). 116.e1-116.e8. ISSN 0213-9111
Abstract
Objectives: To explore the factors determining self-medication among the Spanish adult population, paying special attention to differences in pharmaceutical consumption patterns between the immigrant and autochthonous populations in Spain. Methods: Logistic regression models were used to evaluate the effect of several demographic, socioeconomic, lifestyle, and health-related variables on self-medication. Data were drawn from the adult sample of the 2006 Spanish National Health Survey, which included 29,478 individuals over 15 years old. Results: The results show that individuals at higher risk of self-medication were young, with a positive perception of health and no chronic diseases, frequent consumers of alcohol, widowers, holders of a private medical insurance policy not contracted through the civil servants' mutual funds, residents in the Autonomous Communities of Madrid or Valencia, and individuals born in Central or Eastern Europe. Conclusions: Identifying the profile of self-medicated drug users in Spain may help health authorities to target high risk individuals in order to comply with European Union public health goals.
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| Official URL: | http://www.elsevier.es/revistas/ctl_servlet?_f=703... |
| Additional Information: | © 2009 SESPAS |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | public health, self-medicated drug use, immigration |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Sets: | Departments > Social Policy Research centres and groups > LSE Health |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/32541/ |
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