Differences between Roma and non-Roma in how social support from family and friends helps to overcome health care accessibility problems

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15260%2F15%3A33156402" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15260/15:33156402 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-015-0165-z" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-015-0165-z</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-015-0165-z" target="_blank" >10.1186/s12939-015-0165-z</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Differences between Roma and non-Roma in how social support from family and friends helps to overcome health care accessibility problems
Original language description
Background: Roma are the most deprived ethnic minority in Slovakia, suffering from discrimination, poverty and social exclusion. Problematic access to good quality health care as result of institutional and interpersonal discrimination affects their health; therefore, factors which affect health care accessibility of Roma are of high importance for public health and policy makers. The aim of this study was to explore the association between health care accessibility problems and ethnicity and how different levels of social support from family and friends affect this association. Methods: We used data from the cross-sectional HepaMeta study conducted in 2011 in Slovakia. The final sample comprised 452 Roma (mean age = 34.7; 35.2% men) and 403 (mean age= 33.5; 45.9% men) non-Roma respondents. Results: Roma in comparison with non-Roma have a more than 3-times higher chance of reporting health care accessibility problems. Social support from family and friends significantly decreases the
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
FQ - Public health system, social medicine
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/EE.2.3.20.0063" target="_blank" >EE.2.3.20.0063: Social determinants of health among social and health disadvantaged groups of population</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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