In particular, we estimate the impact of a variety of socioeconomic, demographic and health factors on an individual's annual contacts with a doctor and whether an individual visited a hospital in the past year. To account for unobserved heterogeneity in health we focus on a Latent Component ...
Few studies have examined how socioeconomic factors impact adolescent's health and healthcare use in the UK. Rougeaux et al. (2017) use data from the Millennium Cohort Study to investigate health inequality during childhood, finding an increase in the socioeconomic gradient for overweight children...
Socioeconomic Status And Health Care Essay Social class, culture, and ethnicity all impact a patient and their family’s health. Although all three of these components are an important aspect of health, if I could only assess one it would be social class. A family’s social class is the ...
Besides macrolevel characteristics of a health care system, mesolevel access characteristics can exert influence on socioeconomic inequalities in healthcare use. These reflect access to healthcare, which is shaped on a smaller scale than the national level, by the institutions and establishments of a...
35 It is important to note that the independent impact of NAFLD on healthcare costs was not consistently analysed in all studies and the contribution of metabolic comorbidities could contribute to an overestimation of the economic burden of the disease. This potential confounding is an important ...
Impacts of long-term temperature change and variability on electricity investments Temperature changes as a result of climate change are expected to impact electric capacity and investment. Here, the authors show that in the United States under socioeconomic pathway 2 and RCP 8.5 mean temperature ri...
Education, on the other hand, impacts health literacy and the ability to navigate the healthcare system effectively [16]. By using these indicators, researchers can capture the multi-faceted nature of socio-economic status and its impact on health, leading to more robust and actionable findings ...
Epilepsy affects 1% of the US population. Healthcare disparities are well-studied among adults with epilepsy but less so among children. We examined whether children with epilepsy (1) have lower income than or (2) utilize the emergency department (ED) di
healthcare expenditures, this prolonged consumption has limited impact on overall lifetime healthcare costs. Additionally, a significant benefit is the deferment of healthcare expenditures into the future. Overall, our results diminish concerns about socially inequitable utilization of healthcare resources ...
The inverse care law revisited: impact of disadvantaged location on accessing longer GP consultation times. Med J Aust. 2002;177(2):80-83. doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04673.xPubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 7. van Doorslaer E, Masseria C, Koolman X; OECD Health Equity ...