Impact of COVID-19 on unmet needs for healthcare in Peru: an interrupted time series analysis.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic affected people's health and access to healthcare worldwide. Still, little is known about how distinct phases of the pandemic - namely the lockdown period and the period directly after lockdown - impacted these outcomes, and whether there were differences in these impacts among different segments of the Peruvian population. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of different phases of the COVID-19 response on unmet needs for healthcare across Peru. Using an interrupted time series design, this study analyzed quarterly data from Peru's National Household Survey on Living Conditions and Poverty (ENAHO) from 2018 to 2022. Outcome variables included people reporting having a health problem in the last 4 weeks and, among those reporting a problem, whether they had

SUBMITTER: Vargas-Fernandez R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12513646 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature