Underutilization of prescribed drugs use among first generation elderly immigrants in the Netherlands

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Denktaş, Semiha ^a,b   Koopmans, Gerrit ^a   Birnie, Erwin ^a,b   Foets, Marleen ^a   Bonsel, Gouke ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SOCIAL CLASS; SURINAME; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; SOCIAL CLASS; SURINAME; TURKEY;

EID: 77953659736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-176     Document Type: Article

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