Decomposing Disability Inequality in Unmet Healthcare Needs and Preventable Hospitalizations: An Analysis of the Korea Health Panel.

ABSTRACT: Objectives: This study examines the inequality between people with and without disabilities regarding unmet healthcare needs and preventable hospitalization. Methods: We used the Korea Health Panel of 2016-2018; the final analytical observations were 43,512, including 6.95% of persons with disabilities. We examined the differences in contributors to the two dependent variables and decomposed the observed differences into explained and unexplained components using the Oaxaca-Blinder approach. Results: Unmet healthcare needs and preventable hospitalizations were 5.6% p (15.36% vs. 9.76%) and 0.68% p (1.82% vs. 0.61%), respectively, higher in people with disabilities than in those without, of which 48% and 35% were due to characteristics that the individual variables cann

SUBMITTER: Kim S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10011105 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature