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ArticleHealth economics review2017

Socioeconomic inequality of diabetes patients' health care utilization in Denmark.

Camilla Sortsø, Jørgen Lauridsen, Martha Emneus, Anders Green, Peter Bjødstrup Jensen

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Article in Health economics review, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05407948 (The Interaction Between Cognitive Reserve and Neuropsychological Variables, Variables Related to Psychological Well-being and Health Care Usage in Relation to Long-term Outcome After Stroke or Traumatic Brain Injury), which is not on this map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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NCT05407948 completednot on this mapstarted 2018, after this paper: background citation

The Interaction Between Cognitive Reserve and Neuropsychological Variables, Variables Related to Psychological Well-being and Health Care Usage in Relation to Long-term Outcome After Stroke or Traumatic Brain Injury

TypeobservationalSponsorNatascha EkdahlRan2018 to 2022Enrolled87ConditionsTraumatic Brain Injury, Stroke
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Camilla SortsøCentre of Health Economics Research (COHERE), Department of Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5s30, Odense M, Denmark.
Jørgen LauridsenCentre of Health Economics Research (COHERE), Department of Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5s30, Odense M, Denmark. jtl@sam.sdu.dk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9889-6236
Martha EmneusInstitute of Applied Economics and Health Research (ApEHR), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Anders GreenInstitute of Applied Economics and Health Research (ApEHR), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Peter Bjødstrup JensenInstitute of Applied Economics and Health Research (ApEHR), Copenhagen, Denmark.
University of Southern Denmark · DKInstitute of Applied Economics and Health Research ApS · DK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding socioeconomic inequalities in health care is critical for achieving health equity. The aim of this paper is threefold: 1) to quantify inequality in diabetes health care service utilization; 2) to understand determinants of these inequalities in relation to socio-demographic and clinical morbidity factors; and 3) to compare the empirical outcome of using income level and educational level as proxies for Socio Economic Status (SES).Data on the entire Danish population of diabetes patients in 2011 (N = 318,729) were applied. Patients' unique personal identification number enabled individual patient data from several national registers to be linked. A concentration index approach with decomposition into contributing factors was applied. Differences in diabetes patients' health care utilization patterns suggest that use of services differ among patients of lower and higher SES, despite the Danish universal health care system. Especially, out-patient services, rehabilitation and specialists in primary care show different utilization patterns according to SES. Comparison of the empirical outcome from using educational level and income level as proxy for patients' SES indicate important differences in inequality estimates. While income, alike other measures of labor market attachment, to a certain extent is explained by morbidity and thus endogenous, education is more decisive for patients' ability to take advantage of the more specialized services provided in a universal health care system.

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