Older Europeans' experience of unmet health care during the COVID-19 pandemic (first wave).

ABSTRACT:

Background

During the COVID-19 pandemic the utilization of health services has changed. People were living in a very different social, economic and epidemiological context. Unmet health care is expected to happen. The purposes of this work are i) to compare the differences between unmet care across countries, ii) to find the main factors which are associated with unmet health care, which includes giving up and postponing medical care, as well as denial of medical care provision by the health services, and iii) to determine if health systems' characteristics and government decisions on lockdown were related to unmet care.

Methods

We have used the most recent dataset collected by the SHARE-COVID Survey during the summer of 2020. These data cover all EU countries and are applie

SUBMITTER: Tavares AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8840072 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature