Access to healthcare for people aged 50+ in Europe during the COVID-19 outbreak.

ABSTRACT: This paper combines SHARE Corona Survey and SHARE Wave 7 data for 25 European countries and Israel (N = 40,919) with institutional and epidemic-related country characteristics to investigate healthcare access for Europeans aged 50+ during the outbreak of COVID-19. We use a micro-macro approach to examine whether and to what extent barriers to accessing healthcare measured by reported unmet healthcare needs vary within and between countries. We consider various aspects of barriers and distinguish among: (1) respondents who forewent medical treatment because they were afraid of becoming infected with the Coronavirus; (2) respondents who had pre-scheduled medical appointments postponed by health providers due to the outbreak; and (3) respondents who tried to arrange a medical appointme

SUBMITTER: Smolic S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8195455 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature