Diabetes adherence - does gender matter?

Abstract: Aim: This paper aims to unobtrusively identify gender patterns in diabetics' adherence to their medication regimen. Subjects and methods: Non-adherence is a major problem in health care as it affects both the patient’s individual health as well as public health. Seen worldwide, the problem of non-adherence is even more important due to the increasing numbers of the elderly population and of chronic diseases such as diabetes, asthma, HIV, etc. It is estimated that in Germany alone, non-adherence is responsible for costs of €10 billion per year. Finding useful health behaviour patterns could be especially important for the increasing number of patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, where costs are high and consequences such as retino-, nephro- and neuropathy severe for 180 million diabetics worldwide. This paper analyses the records of two German pharmacies, P1 and P2, regarding gender patterns in adherence to oral antidiabetics as this analysis method has a high specificit

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Postprint ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Journal of Public Health ; 18 (2009) 3 ; 219-226

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2009
• Creator: Geisel-Marbaise, Sonja ; Stummer, Harald

Further information

• DOI: 10.1007/s10389-009-0305-2
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-203626
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 2025-08-15T07:22:20+0200