The pervasiveness of pharmaceutical expenditure inertia in the OECD countries

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 225-238

  Okunade, Albert A ^a   Suraratdecha, Chutima ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b PATH   (United States)

Author keywords

Expenditure elasticities; Health system policies; OECD countries; Rising pharmaceutical spending; Spending inertia

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; DEVELOPING WORLD; DRUG; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPENDITURE; INERTIA; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OECD;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; DRUG COST; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG LEGISLATION; DRUG USE; DRUG UTILIZATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MODEL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PHARMACIST ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN INCOME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGED; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DRUG COSTS; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33747104501     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.11.046     Document Type: Article

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