WSMI‘s  Worldwide Review of Consumer Surveys on Self-Care and Self-Medication
February 2007

This new review of consumer surveys carried out over the past 10 years around the world confirms that OTC medicines are used cautiously and responsibly and that they help to educate people on the practice of healthy living habits and self-care. It summarises the striking similarities among people around the world. Feeling unwell and suffering from non-chronic ailments is a very common experience. People around the world tend to treat these conditions in much the same conservative way, about a quarter of the time turning to OTC medicines. People are becoming more confident that they have a role to play in their own healthcare and they believe that a modern healthcare system should offer increasing opportunities to access OTC medicines.
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