Open AccessPrescription medicines, over-the-counter medicines and complementary and alternative medicines use: a comparison between baby boomers and older South Australians
Author(s) -
Bee Leng Per,
Anne Taylor,
Tiffany K. Gill
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
aims public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2327-8994
DOI - 10.3934/publichealth.2019.4.380
Subject(s) - medical prescription , baby boomers , medicine , logistic regression , alternative medicine , family medicine , over the counter , traditional medicine , demography , nursing , pathology , demographic economics , economics , sociology
This study examines the difference in medication use between baby boomers (born between 1946-1965) and older people (born before 1946) to determine the proportion of people combining over-the-counter (OTC) medicines and complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) use with prescription medicine use.