Equity in prevention and health care

STUDY OBJECTIVE: There is an increasing body of evidence about socioeconomic inequality in preventive use, mostly for cancer screening. But as far as needs of prevention are unequally distributed, even equal use may not be fair. Moreover, prevention might be unequally used in the same way as health care in general. The objective of the paper is to assess inequity in prevention and to compare socioeconomic inequity in preventive medicine with that in health care. DESIGN: A cross sectional Health Interview Survey was carried out in 1997 by face to face interview and self administered questionnai... Mehr ...

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Verfasser: Lorant, V.
Boland, B.
Humblet, Claire Perrine
Deliège, Denise
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
Schlagwörter: Santé publique / Médecine préventive / Sociologie de la santé / Sociologie des milieux particuliers / Adult / Aged / Belgium / Breast Neoplasms -- prevention & control / Cross-Sectional Studies / Female / Health Services Accessibility -- organization & administration / Humans / Hypercholesterolemia -- prevention & control / Immunization -- utilization / Influenza / Human -- prevention & control / Male / Mammography -- utilization / Mass Screening -- utilization / Middle Aged / Multivariate Analysis / Odds Ratio / Patient Acceptance of Health Care -- statistics & numerical data / Preventive Health Services -- utilization / Socioeconomic Factors / Uterine Cervical Neoplasms -- prevention & control / Vaginal Smears -- utilization
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/35721