Health insurance utilisation after ischaemic stroke in Sweden: a retrospective cohort study in a system of universal healthcare and social insurance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stroke is one of the largest single-condition sources of the global burden of non-communicable disease in terms of disability-adjusted life-years and monetary costs, directly as well as indirectly in terms of informal care and productivity loss. The objective was to assess the population afflicted with ischaemic stroke in working age in the context of universal healthcare and social insurance; to estimate the levels of absence from work, the indirect costs related to that and to assess the associated patient characteristics.

Methods

This was a retrospective register-based study; all individuals registered with an ischaemic stroke during 2008-2011 in seven Swedish regions, covering the largest cities as well as more rural areas, were included. Individual-level data

SUBMITTER: Willers C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7993163 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature