Different patterns for different conditions The influence of personal characteristics on attitudes towards medicine use

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dc.contributor.authorBaslevent, Cem
dc.contributor.authorMaran, Tugba
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:47:15Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:47:15Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractPurpose - Using data from the European Social Survey, the purpose of this paper is to examine the individual-level determinants of the attitudes toward the use of medicines to treat common conditions such as hair loss and weight gain. Design/methodology/approach - The authors estimate ordered logit models in which the five conditions inquired about in the survey are the dependent variables. Findings - The variation in the average approval scores for medicine use implies differing degrees of medicalization for the five conditions inquired about in the survey, and the associations observed in the multivariate analysis reveal that part of the subjectivity in attitudes can be attributed to basic personal characteristics, namely age, gender, and education. Self-evaluations of general health, happiness, religiosity, and political ideology are also found to influence people's attitudes in predictable ways. Research limitations/implications - The examinations point to the shortcomings of the available data sets in sorting out the roles of different factors - such as the presence of effective treatments without side effects - in reaching the observed attitudes for medicine use. Social implications - The empirical findings suggest that the overuse of medicines can become a more serious problem in the near future in aging European societies. Originality/value - The authors demonstrate that higher approval scores among younger and more educated people on the whole and among women with respect to hair loss suggest that more medicalized attitudes are not necessarily found among groups the most likely to have the condition in question, but those who find it the most difficult to imagine themselves being in that situation.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1108/IJSE-11-2013-0258
dc.identifier.endpage1034en_US
dc.identifier.issn0306-8293
dc.identifier.issn1758-6712
dc.identifier.issue11en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84944322234en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2en_US
dc.identifier.startpage1024en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-11-2013-0258
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/7745
dc.identifier.volume42en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000366621800004en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEmerald Group Publishing Limiteden_US
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Social Economicsen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectMedicalizationen_US
dc.subjectHealth Outcomesen_US
dc.subjectEuropean Social Surveyen_US
dc.subjectWelfare-State Regimesen_US
dc.subjectEuropean Social Surveyen_US
dc.subjectCare Seeking Behavioren_US
dc.subjectSelf-Assessed Healthen_US
dc.subjectAlternative Medicineen_US
dc.subjectMultilevel Analysisen_US
dc.subjectReported Healthen_US
dc.subjectSocioeconomic Inequalitiesen_US
dc.subjectGeneral-Populationen_US
dc.subjectNordic Countriesen_US
dc.titleDifferent patterns for different conditions The influence of personal characteristics on attitudes towards medicine useen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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