Association between forgone care and household income among the elderly in five Western European countries analyses based on survey data from the SHARE-study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mielck, Andreas ^a   Kiess, Raphael ^a   Knesebeck, Olaf Von Dem ^b   Stirbu, Irina ^c   Kunst, Anton E ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERMANY; GREECE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION; ITALY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POPULATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; RETIREMENT; SAMPLE; SEX; SWEDEN; WESTERN EUROPE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ECONOMICS; ELDERLY CARE; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH STATUS; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 64249083201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-9-52     Document Type: Article

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