Risk selection in primary care: a cross-sectional fixed effect analysis of Swedish individual data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess socioeconomic differences between patients registered with private and public primary healthcare centres.

Design

Population-based cross-sectional study controlling for municipality and household.

Setting

Swedish population-based socioeconomic data collected from Statistics Sweden linked with individual registration data from all 21 Swedish regions.

Participants

All individuals residing in Sweden on 31 December 2015 (n=9 851 017) were included in the study.

Primary outcome measures

Registration with private versus public primary healthcare centres.

Results

After controlling for municipality and household, individuals with higher socioeconomic status were more likely to be registered with a private primary healthcare provider. In

SUBMITTER: Isaksson D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6224750 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature