Disparities in the Use of General Somatic Care among Individuals Treated for Severe Mental Disorders and the General Population in France.

ABSTRACT: Individuals with severe mental illnesses (SMI) face a striking excess and premature mortality which has been demonstrated in several national contexts. This phenomenon, which constitutes a red-flag indicator of public health inequities, can be hypothesized to result from healthcare access issues which have been insufficiently documented so far. In this context, our objective was to explore patterns of general somatic healthcare use of individuals treated for SMI in comparison to those of the general population in France using national health administrative data and a matched case-control study. Differences in the use of general and specific somatic preventive care services, primary care, routine specialized somatic care and admissions to non-psychiatric hospital departments for somatic cau

SUBMITTER: Gandre C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7277621 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature