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Field	Value

Title	Automedicazione: una risorsa economica da valorizzare

Creator	Lucioni, Carlo Zappaterra, Luca

Subject	Pharmacoeconomics; Health economics

Description	At the beginning of this new millennium, when the request for health care exceeds overall economic growth, resorting to self-medication allows to free up healthcare resources and it has a positive outcome for public health care systems and also for the individual. Self-medication is defined as the application of prescription-free medicines (OTC) to consumers in order to cure minor ailments. Aim of this study is to present the social and economic value of self-medication, comparing the Italian situation with other national situations inside European Union, especially France, U.K. and Germany. In Italy the OTC market is still late and the present study examines the different explanations, considering the trade-off between OTC products and health public spending, the geographical distribution and the possible savings for the for public health care system.

Publisher	SEEd Medical Publishers

Date	2001-12-15

Type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion —

Identifier	https://journals.edizioniseed.it/index.php/FE/article/view/736 10.7175/fe.v2i4.736

Source	Farmeconomia. Health economics and therapeutic pathways; Vol 2, No 4 (2001); 223-229 2240-256X 1721-6915

Language	en

Rights	Copyright (c) 2001 Farmeconomia. Health economics and therapeutic pathways http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

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