Prescription drug cost sharing: associations with medication and medical utilization and spending and health

DP Goldman, GF Joyce, Y Zheng - Jama, 2007 - jamanetwork.com
ContextPrescription drugs are instrumental to managing and preventing chronic disease.
Recent changes in US prescription drug cost sharing could affect access to them …

What impact do prescription drug charges have on efficiency and equity? Evidence from high-income countries

MC Gemmill, S Thomson, E Mossialos - International journal for equity in …, 2008 - Springer
As pharmaceutical expenditure continues to rise, third-party payers in most high-income
countries have increasingly shifted the burden of payment for prescription drugs to patients …

Pharmaceutical policies: effects of cap and co‐payment on rational use of medicines

VL Luiza, LA Chaves, RM Silva… - Cochrane Database …, 2015 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Growing expenditures on prescription medicines represent a major challenge
to many health systems. Cap and co‐payment policies are intended as an incentive to deter …

Cold summer weather, constrained restoration, and the use of antidepressants in Sweden

T Hartig, R Catalano, M Ong - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2007 - Elsevier
Constraint of restorative activities prolongs chronic stress and may exacerbate depressive
symptoms. Treating unseasonable weather as an ecological constraint on restorative …

Do policy changes in the pharmaceutical reimbursement schedule affect drug expenditures?: Interrupted time series analysis of cost, volume and cost per volume …

K Andersson, MG Petzold, C Sonesson, K Lönnroth… - Health policy, 2006 - Elsevier
The last decades increasing pharmaceutical expenditures in Sweden and other western
countries have created a need for reforms to reduce the trend. The aim was to analyse if …

Work-related sleep disturbances and sickness absence in the Swedish working population, 1993–1999

H Westerlund, K Alexanderson, T Åkerstedt… - Sleep, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Objectives: To examine secular trends in work-related sleep disturbances
and their association with sickness absence in the Swedish working population. Design …

[PDF][PDF] Effect of the economic recession on pharmaceutical policy and medicine sales in eight European countries

C Leopold, AK Mantel-Teeuwisse… - Bulletin of the World …, 2014 - SciELO Public Health
Objective To identify pharmaceutical policy changes during the economic recession in eight
European countries and to determine whether policy measures resulted in lower sales of …

Vacation, collective restoration, and mental health in a population

T Hartig, R Catalano, M Ong… - Society and Mental …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Vacations enable people to help one another, spend time together in pleasant contexts, and
renew relational resources. Reasoning that these shared activities spread social and …

The impact of repeated cost containment policies on pharmaceutical expenditure: experience in Spain

I Moreno-Torres, J Puig-Junoy, JM Raya - The European Journal of Health …, 2011 - Springer
The growth in expenditure on the financing of pharmaceuticals is a factor that accounts for a
large part of the increase in public health spending in most developed countries. In an …

Copayments for prescription medicines on a public health insurance scheme in Ireland

SJ Sinnott, C Normand, S Byrne… - … and drug safety, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose We assessed the impact of the introduction of a€ 0.50 prescription copayment, and
its increase to€ 1.50, on adherence to essential and less‐essential medicines in a publicly …