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

BACKGROUND: Studies on the association between access to health care and household income have rarely included an assessment of 'forgone care', but this indicator could add to our understanding of the inverse care law. We hypothesize that reporting forgone care is more prevalent in low inc...

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Autores principales: Mielck, Andreas, Kiess, Raphael, Knesebeck, Olaf von dem, Stirbu, Irina, Kunst, Anton E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2666678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19309496
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-9-52