Skip to main content

Table 7 Sources of infant medications

From: Observations on the health of infants at a time of rapid societal change: a longitudinal study from birth to fifteen months in Abu Dhabi

 

Infant age (months)

Medication prescribed by:

3 (n = 65)

6 (n = 52)

14–15 (n = 40)

Doctor

61

93.8%

28

53.8%

37

92.5%

Pharmacist

2

3.1%

4

7.7%

1

2.5%

Traditional healer

4

6.2%

1

1.9%

1

2.5%

Purchased in shop

1

1.5%

0

0.0%

0

0.0%

Back to article page

BMC Pediatrics

ISSN: 1471-2431

Contact us