Background: Equitable access to health care is a goal subscribed to in many European
economies. But while a growing body of literature studies socioeconomic inequalities in …

Background Equitable access to essential medicines is a major challenge for policy-makers
world-wide, including Central and Eastern European countries. Member States of the …

Objective To analyse the association among different types of medicine use and different
measures of socio-economic position (SEP) in one and the same general population …

Background The aim of the present study was to describe the use of prescribed and non
prescribed medicines in a non-institutionalised population older than 15 years of an urban …

Background Pharmaceuticals represent an increasing share of private and public health
care expenditures. The aim of this study was to characterise users and to determine the …

Introduction: In the public health system we study medical treatment which is ideally
provided according to need and independently of economic means. We report use of …

Background Little information exists on how constantly growing pharmaceutical
expenditures are distributed in large representative samples of national populations in …

This study analyzes the socioeconomic gradient in drug utilization. We use The Swedish
Prescribed Drug Register, merged with the Survey of Living Conditions (the ULF), and the …

Objectives. In this study, population-based analysis is used to study the extent to which
characteristics such as age, sex, socioeconomic status, and region of residence are …

Aims: The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical insurance on the
demand for prescription pharmaceuticals in the county of Västerbotten, Sweden. As the …