Sarma, Sisira; Basu, Kisalaya; Gupta, Anil - In: Social Science & Medicine 65 (2007) 12, pp. 2553-2565
Using 2002 Canadian Community Health Survey data, this paper examines the effect of public and private prescription drug insurance on the utilization of psychotropic and non-psychotropic drugs. It is found that prescription drug utilization is characterized by two stochastic regimes requiring...