Can differences in medical drug compliance between European countries be explained by social factors: Analyses based on data from the European Social Survey, round 2

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Larsen, John ^a   Stovring, Henrik ^a   Kragstrup, Jakob ^a   Hansen, Dorte G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; INTERVIEW; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCRIPTION; PURCHASING; SAMPLE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; AGE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 66649103603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-145     Document Type: Article

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