| Titre : | Socioeconomic differences in the adoption of new medical technologies. |
| Titre original: | Différences socio-économiques dans l'adoption de nouvelles technologies médicales. |
| Titre de série : | NBER Working Paper, n° 11218 |
| Auteurs : | D. GOLDMAN ; J.P. SMITH ; National Bureau of Economic Research. (N.B.E.R.). Cambridge CA. USA |
| Type de document : | Document de travail |
| Editeur : | Cambridge : N.B.E.R., 2005 |
| Format : | 12p., tabl., graph., fig. |
| Note générale : | Référence : réf. bibl. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
[BDSP5] CANDES > DIFFUSION INNOVATION [BDSP5] Etudes méthodes et statistiques [NI] > Méthodologie > Processus > Evolution [BDSP5] Géographie politique > Monde > Amérique > Amérique du Nord > Etats Unis [BDSP5] Pathologie > Appareil circulatoire [pathologie] > Hypertension artérielle [BDSP5] Pratique médicale > Recherche médicale > Innovation médicale [BDSP5] Système éducatif > Niveau enseignement [BDSP5] Thérapeutique > Thérapeutique médicamenteuse [BDSP5] Thérapeutique > Thérapeutique médicamenteuse > Médicament [BDSP5] Thérapeutique > Thérapeutique médicamenteuse > Médicament > Médicament antihypertenseur |
| Résumé : | New medical technologies hold tremendous promise for improving population health, but they also raise concerns about exacerbating already large differences in health by socio-economic status (SES). If effective treatments are more rapidly adopted by the better educated, SES health disparities may initially expand even though the health of those in all groups eventually improves. Hypertension provides a useful case study. It is an important risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease, the condition is relatively common, and there are large differences in rates of hypertension by education. This paper examines the short and long-term diffusion of two important classes of anti-hypertensives - ACE inhibitors and calcium channel blockers - over the last twenty-five years. Using three prominent medical surveys, it finds no evidence that the diffusion of these drugs into medical practice favored one education group relative to another. The findings suggest that - at least for hypertension - SES differences in the adoption of new medical technologies are not an important reason for the SES health gradient. |
| En ligne : | http://www.nber.org/papers/w11218.pdf |
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