Self-treatment by Kenyan and Ugandan schoolchildren and the need for school-based education.

摘要: Studies on Kenyan and Ugandan primary schoolchildren's knowledge of medicines self-treatment practices show that children aged between 10 18 years have a broad herbal biomedical remedies they use them frequently, often without adults' involvement. They pharmaceuticals, including prescription-only drugs, but lack about indications dosages. There is gap the children's life worlds school health education as it presently designed taught in Kenya Uganda. It limits itself to disease prevention promotion, does not teach treatment or medicine-use. Self-treatment based insufficient poses threat wider community. Therefore, critical appropriate needs be developed tested for possible Kenya, Uganda other countries which home-treatment common. The proposed should go beyond providing information accurate dosage indication: create awareness with regard medicine-use, enabling appropriately cautiously. schoolchildren are active agents within pluralistic medical fields. By taking seriously competent care agents, dangers could reduced, potential guided fruitful use. Educational interventions cannot solve problems self-treatment, related social economic context, contribute increased necessary condition change.