Medicine use among adolescents: the 11-year follow-up of the 1993 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study Utilização de medicamentos por adolescentes: a visita de 11 anos da coorte de nascimentos de Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, 1993

• Main Authors: Andréa D. Bertoldi (Author), Noemia U. L. Tavares (Author), Pedro C. Hallal (Author), Cora Luiza Araújo (Author), Ana M. B. Menezes (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2010-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The aim of this study was to investigate medicine use and associated factors among adolescents. This was a prospective cohort study including 4,452 adolescents born in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, in 1993. Information on medicine use in the 15 days prior to the interviews was collected...