Disparities in prescription drug insurance coverage - ARCHIVED
Articles and reports: 82-003-X19980044507
Description:
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.
Issue Number: 1998004
Main Product: Health Reports
| 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
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