Unmet Need For Health Care - A Serious Issue for European Elderly?

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.05.487" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.05.487</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Unmet Need For Health Care - A Serious Issue for European Elderly?

Original language description

Unmet need is found as an undesirable feature of health care systems. The paper analyses unmet health care need among European elderly. The data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe is used. The methods of descriptive analyses are applied. Results showed that access to health care is not equal; unmet need exists and is serious in Estonia and Italy especially. The elderly with unmet need have worse health and suffer from a higher number of chronic diseases. They face higher health care burden. The most vulnerable are older elderly with a low income.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AH - Economics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

ISBN

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ISSN

1877-0428

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

217-225

Publisher name

Elsevier Science BV

Place of publication

Amsterdam

Event location

Brno

Event date

Mar 10, 2016

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

000386948700026