School-level medicine education as a method for empowering future medicine users in Finland

• In: How to empower our patients on Wednesday, 31 August 2016, 12:30-13:00
• At: Buenos Aires (Argentina) (2016)
• Type: Presentation
• By: HäMEEN-ANTTILA, Katri (Finnish Medicines Agency Fimea, Toivala, Finland)
• Co-author(s): Katri Hämeen-Anttila:Finnish Medicines Agency Fimea,Kuopio,Finland
  
• Abstract:

  Children use medicines widely and they should learn how to use medicines rationally before taking responsibility of their medicine use. However, proper use of medicines is rarely taught by parents, health care professionals or during school health education globally.

  In Finland, a medicine education project was started early 2000. A Medicine

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