What impact do prescription drug charges have on efficiency and equity? Evidence from high-income countries
<p>Abstract</p> <p>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. A large body of literature has examined the relationship between prescription cha...
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>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. A large body of literature has examined the relationship between prescription charges and outcomes such as expenditure, use, and health, but few reviews explicitly link cost sharing for prescription drugs to efficiency and equity. This article reviews 173 studies from 15 high-income countries and discusses their implications for important issues sometimes ignored in the literature; in particular, the extent to which prescription charges contain health care costs and enhance efficiency without lowering equity of access to care.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ba906329625a4e1b9141e4223b5c38fa2022-12-22T00:49:20ZengBMCInternational Journal for Equity in Health1475-92762008-05-01711210.1186/1475-9276-7-12What impact do prescription drug charges have on efficiency and equity? Evidence from high-income countriesMossialos EliasThomson SarahGemmill Marin C<p>Abstract</p> <p>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. A large body of literature has examined the relationship between prescription charges and outcomes such as expenditure, use, and health, but few reviews explicitly link cost sharing for prescription drugs to efficiency and equity. This article reviews 173 studies from 15 high-income countries and discusses their implications for important issues sometimes ignored in the literature; in particular, the extent to which prescription charges contain health care costs and enhance efficiency without lowering equity of access to care.</p>http://www.equityhealthj.com/content/7/1/12 |
| spellingShingle | Mossialos Elias Thomson Sarah Gemmill Marin C What impact do prescription drug charges have on efficiency and equity? Evidence from high-income countries International Journal for Equity in Health |
| title | What impact do prescription drug charges have on efficiency and equity? Evidence from high-income countries |
| title_full | What impact do prescription drug charges have on efficiency and equity? Evidence from high-income countries |
| title_fullStr | What impact do prescription drug charges have on efficiency and equity? Evidence from high-income countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | What impact do prescription drug charges have on efficiency and equity? Evidence from high-income countries |
| title_short | What impact do prescription drug charges have on efficiency and equity? Evidence from high-income countries |
| title_sort | what impact do prescription drug charges have on efficiency and equity evidence from high income countries |
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