Use of outpatient healthcare services before and after the onset of unemployment: A register-based propensity score matched study from Finland.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The aim was to examine the use of outpatient healthcare services in different sectors of healthcare before and after the onset of unemployment and to study whether job loss affected the use of these services.

Methods

Longitudinal individual-level register-based data was utilized on all individuals living in the City of Oulu, Finland, who became unemployed in 2017 (N = 1,999), their propensity matched controls (N = 1,999), and unmatched controls (N = 58,459) in a quasi-experimental design. Use of outpatient healthcare services was examined in one-month periods from 12 months before to 12 months after the onset of unemployment. Several socio-demographic factors, along with sickness and employment histories, were used for matching. Difference-in-differences analysis was us

SUBMITTER: Rinne H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10411812 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature