Drugs and Health Care Expenditure on the Aging Population

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Drugs and Health Care Expenditure on the Aging Population

Original language description

The aim of this article is to identify the main factors that affect future trends in healthcare expenditures from the perspective of the anticipated ageing of the population. Attention shall be focused on the elderly demography, the inhabitants' pensionsand their expenditures on drugs. The article also shows the results of a case study concerning the use of particular types of drugs by elderly people in the Czech Republic and in European union. For the purpose of this article, I employed a literature search method that uses available sources describing the determinants of public healthcare expenditure and the use of selected types of drugs by the ageing population. The current situation in EU Member Countries is addressed through an analysis of publicexpenditure using data from public databases, such as Eurostat or OECD. The types of drugs designed for the ageing population are focused on the Czech Republic. It follows from the executed analysis that the basic determinants of public

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AE - Management, administration and clerical work

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Česká a slovenská farmacie

ISSN

1210-7816

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Volume of the periodical

2015

Issue of the periodical within the volume

64

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

173-177

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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