Disparities in prescription drug insurance coverage
This article examines socioeconomic differences in supplementary insurance for prescription drugs among Canadians aged 15 or older and how the availability of such insurance affects prescription drug use. Overall, about 6 in 10 Canadians reported having drug insurance, although the percentage covered rose with household income.
| Format | Release date | More information |
|---|---|---|
| April 29, 1999 |
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Subjects and keywords
Subjects
Keywords
- Age groups
- Analytical products
- Canada Pension Plan
- Chronic health problems
- Disability pensions
- Dividends
- Drug insurance plans
- Drug use
- Drugs
- Economic families
- Educational attainment
- Employment
- Employment benefits
- Employment status
- Expenditures
- Families with children
- Families without children
- Family type
- Full-time employees
- Health insurance
- High school education
- High-income families
- Income
- International comparisons
- Layoffs
- Low income
- Low-income families
- Old age security pensions
- Physicians
- Postsecondary education
- Prescription drugs
- Provincial differences
- Quebec Pension Plan
- Retirement pensions
- Salaries and wages
- Self-employment
- Sex
- Social assistance
- Support payments
- Unattached individuals
- University degrees
- Workers' compensation