; telephone-351239790500 Highlights Participation in informal networks decreases probability of unmet healthcare needs in Europe Trust in health services is relevant and there is margin to improvements Individuals involved in civic activities are more likely to report unmet needs Persistent needs for health care end up increasing probability of unmet needs Error correlation suggests sample selection models are appropriate to
As necessidades de cuidados de saúde não satisfeitas têm sido usadas para avaliar o acesso a cuidados de saúde. Em cenários de recessão e restrições financeiras impostas às políticas públicas, é importante identificar que fatores, para além do rendimento, podem ser usados para mitigar as barreiras no acesso. Este é o objetivo deste artigo, para o caso português, durante o rescaldo da crise. Usaram-se 17.698 observações do 5º Inquérito Nacional de Saúde (2014). Analisaram-se as necessidades não satisfeitas (autorreportadas) para as consultas e tratamentos médicos, cuidados de saúde dentários e medicamentos prescritos. Recorreu-se ao modelo de seleção bivariado, acomodando o fato de as necessidades não satisfeitas apenas poderem ser observadas na subamostra de indivíduos que sentiram necessidade de cuidados de saúde. O risco de necessidades de cuidados de saúde não satisfeitas diminui para rendimentos e níveis de educação mais altos bem como no grupo dos idosos e homens. Beneficiar apenas do Serviço Nacional de Saúde aumenta o risco de necessidades não satisfeitas na saúde oral. A ausência de um círculo de pessoas próximas a quem pedir ajuda e a falta de confiança nos outros tornam mais prováveis as necessidades de cuidados de saúde não satisfeitas. Mais saúde diminui o risco de necessidades de cuidados não satisfeitas. Sendo o rendimento um importante preditor das necessidades não satisfeitas, encontrou-se impacto de outros fatores como sexo, idade e educação. Participar em grupos informais reduz a probabilidade de necessidades não satisfeitas. Aqueles com mais necessidades de cuidados de saúde acabam por sofrer um risco acrescido por essa via.
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The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented levels of subjective unmet healthcare needs (SUN). This study investigates the association between SUN in 2020 and three health outcomes in 2021—mortality, cancer, and self-assessed health (SAH), among adults aged 50 years and older, using data from the regular administration of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and from the two special waves administered in 2020 and 2021 regarding COVID-19. Three types of SUN were surveyed: care foregone due to fear of contracting COVID-19, pre-scheduled care postponed, and inability to get medical appointments or treatments demanded. We resort on the relative risk and the logistic specification to investigate the association between SUN and health outcomes. To avoid simultaneity, 1-year lagged SUN variables are used. We found a negative association between SUN and mortality. This result differs from the (scarce) previous evidence, suggesting that health systems prioritised life-threatening conditions, in the pandemic context. In line with previous studies, we obtained a positive association between SUN and worse health, in the case of cancer, though it is statistically significant only for the global measure of SUN (any reason). The higher chances of reporting cancer among those exposed to SUN might mean delayed cancer diagnosis, confirming that healthcare foregone was truly needed for a timely diagnosis. The association between SUN and poor or fair SAH is positive but not statistically significant, for the period analysed.
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