title: [Self-medication amongst illegal Latino-American immigrants: necessary or inapropriate].
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.
authors.affiliation: Service de medecine de premier recours, HUG, 121 1 Genève. marius.besson@hcuge.ch
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Besson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Desmeules
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wolff
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gaspoz
mesh_terms: D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America / Q000208:ethnology; D012651:Self Medication / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013557:Switzerland; D014171:Transients and Migrants