Sources of medicine information in Finland

Ulla Närhi and Satu Helakorpi

Health Policy, 2007, vol. 84, issue 1, 51-57

Abstract: Objectives To identify differences in reported sources of medicine information between age groups and genders in one European country (Finland).Methods A questionnaire on health behaviour was sent by mail to a random sample of 5000 Finns aged 15-64 years in the spring of 2005. The respondents (n = 3287) were asked to report the sources from which they had received information about their medicines (both prescription medicines and self-medication) used over the past year (12 months). Number of respondents who had used medicines during the past year and reported at least one source of medicine information was 2348.Results Women used PILs, newspapers, magazines, books, Health Food Stores (pÂ

Keywords: Drug; information; services; Patients; Age; groups; Medicine; Access; to; information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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