A population-based study on cost-related underuse of medicines by the Elderly in Greater Metropolitan Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil;Estudo de base populacional da subutilização de medicamentos por motivos financeiros entre idosos na Região Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil

Cadernos de Saude Publica

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1578-1586

  Luz, Tatiana Chama Borges ^a   Filho, Antônio Ignácio de Loyola ^a   Lima Costa, Maria Fernanda ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aged; Drug utilization; Pharmaceutical preparations

Indexed keywords

EID: 71449112726     PISSN: 0102311X     EISSN: 16784464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2009000700016     Document Type: Article

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