The impact of the covid-19 outbreak on unmet health care needs in istanbul.

ABSTRACT:

Background & aim

COVID-19 pandemic caused significant barriers to maintain health services. Our study determines the frequency and significant determinants of unmet health needs in Istanbul both in 2019, a pre-pandemic year, and in 2021, a pandemic year and compares the results COVID-19 era to a prior to pandemic year.

Methods

As our study is the first questing Istanbul experience, we estimate the frequencies and determinants of unmet healthcare need among +15 population using TurkStat's Income and Living Conditions Survey Data via Generalized Linear Models (GLMs).

Results

We found that the most prominent barriers were late appointment dates and financial difficulty both before and during the pandemic. According to our findings, women and those having any chronic dise

SUBMITTER: Tokatlioglu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10506054 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature