Drug use and self-medication among children with respiratory illness or diarrhea in a rural district in Vietnam: a qualitative study

Thi Hoan Le1 Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden;2 Department of Environmental Health, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, VietnamCorrespondence[email protected]

Ellinor Ottosson3 Department of Medicine, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden

Thi Kim Chuc Nguyen4 Department of Family Medicine, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam

Bao Giang Kim5 Department of Health Education, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam

Peter Allebeck1 Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Pages 329-336 | Published online: 13 Sep 2011

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