التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Prescription opioids and economic hardship in France |
| المؤلفون: |
Ilaria Natali, Mathias Dewatripont, Victor Ginsburgh, Michel Goldman, Patrick Legros |
| المصدر: |
Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), The European Journal of Health Economics. 24(9):1473-1504 |
| سنة النشر: |
2023 |
| الوصف: |
This paper studies how opioid analgesic sales are empirically related to socioeconomic disparities in France, with a focus on poverty. This analysis is made possible using the OpenHealth database, which provides retail sales data for opioid analgesics available on the French market. We exploit firm-level data for each of the 94 departments in Metropolitan France between 2008 and 2017. We show that increases in the poverty rate are associated with increases in sales: a one percentage point increase in poverty is associated with approximately a 5% increase in mild opioid sales. Our analysis further shows that opioid sales are positively related to the share of middle-aged people and individuals with basic education only, while they are negatively related to population density. The granularity and longitudinal nature of these data allow us to control for a large pool of potential confounding factors. Our results suggest that additional interventions should be more intensively addressed toward the most deprived areas. We conclude that a combination of policies aimed at improving economic prospects and strictly monitoring access to opioid medications would be beneficial for reducing opioid-related harm. |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
redif-article |
| اللغة: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1007/s10198-022-01557 |
| الإتاحة: |
https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/eujhec/v24y2023i9d10.1007_s10198-022-01557-4.html |
| رقم الأكسشن: |
edsrep.a.spr.eujhec.v24y2023i9d10.1007.s10198.022.01557.4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
RePEc |
