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- Title
Socioeconomic status and health-care utilization: a study of the effects of low income, unemployment and hours of work on the demand for health care in the European Union.
- Authors
Economou, Athina; Nikolaou, Agelike; Theodossiou, Ioannis
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to shed light on the individual socioeconomic status and demographic determinants of the demand for health care in a cross-comparison study of nine European Union countries. It focuses on the effects of individual employment status on alternative indicators of demand for health care that constitutes a largely unexplored area. The evidence supports the existence of an employment status-demand for healthcare relationship, although it varies with respect to the type of health care examined and the institutional and environmental settings of the countries utilized in the study.
- Subjects
MEDICAL care; SOCIAL status; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; EUROPEAN Union; HEALTH of poor people
- Publication
Health Services Management Research, 2008, Vol 21, Issue 1, p40
- ISSN
0951-4848
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1258/hsmr.2007.007013