BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie

users of self-medication are well informed and protected from possible
harm or negative long-term effects.
5. The Promotion and Marketing of Self-Medication Products
a. Advertising and marketing of non-prescription medicines
should be responsible, provide clear and accurate information and exhibit a
fair balance between benefit and risk information. Promotion and
marketing should not encourage irresponsible self-medication, purchase of
medicines that are inappropriate, or purchases of larger quantities of
medicines than are necessary.
b. People must be encouraged to treat medicines (prescription and
non-prescription) as special products and that standard precautions should
be followed in terms of safe storage and usage, in accordance with
professional advice.
► Exercises and Discussions:
1. What is society?
2. What is the structure of human society? Describe its elements.
3. Define the terms social status and role. What is difference
between them?
4. What are Role obligations and rights of physician and patient?
5. Listed the forms of role obligations’ deviation.
6. Find and describe the case of medical malpractice.
7. What is self medication? What risk it implies?
► Recommended Essays
1. Health and Social Class
2. Social factors influencing human health.
3. Self medication or addiction?
► Literature:
1. Parsons Talcott. Social System. Routledge, 1991.
2. Blum R. H. The Management of the Doctor-Patient
Relationship. McGraw-Hill, 1960.
3. Anderson Richard E. Medical malpractice: a physician's
sourcebook. Humana Press, 2005.
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