Socio-economic and behavioral determinants of prescription and non-prescription medicine use: the case of Turkey

Demographic and socio-economic factors determine pharmaceutical health care utilization for individuals. Prescription and non-prescription medicine use are expected to have different determinants. Even though prescription and non-prescription medicine use is being well researched for developed countries, there are only a few studies for developing countries.This paper aims to analyze the socio-economic and individual characteristics that...