Bijlsma, M.J. (2011) Age, period and cohort effects in the prescription of benzodiazepine and statin in the Netherlands 1994 - 2008. Master thesis.
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Abstract
The proportion of the Dutch population receiving a prescription each year has increased in the last two decades. Drug prescription trends are influenced by population dynamics but also by other factors. Insight into trends of users of drugs is required and methods from demography may be of help. This study focuses on benzodiazepine and statin using an age-period-cohort framework because the majority of trend studies mask cohort effects. Both drugs have a large number of users and have recently underwent policy changes. The policy change for benzodiazepine sought to reduce the number of chronic users. The study finds that the guideline was effective at reducing user prevalence at young ages (< 50). For statin, a guideline sought to increase users at older ages. This effect was not found, instead it may be obscured by a more important cohort effect for the 1930 cohort, which always has the highest user prevalence.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Spatial Sciences (Research) |
| Supervisor: | Janssen, F. |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2020 05:43 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Apr 2020 05:43 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2783 |
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