This paper examines the relationship between household income and outpatient prescribed medicines in the USA based on a sample of 2872 privately insured patients, from the 1987 NMES data set. The analysis is performed on regional typologies of different socioeconomic profiles of patients. Only a...

The relationship between pharmaceutical expenditures and income is analysed for a sample of 7981 patients, insured with a private plan extracted from the American National Medical Expenditures Survey. The influence of factors such as health status, characteristics of group versus nongroup health...