Barriers to Health Care among the Elderly in Japan

Japan is undergoing a set of health care reforms aimed at cutting rising health care costs and increasing the efficiency of health care delivery. This empirical study used a large-scale community survey on 15,302 elderly people 65 years and older (56.0% women) conducted in seven municipalities in 20...

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Autores principales: Murata, Chiyoe, Yamada, Tetsuji, Chen, Chia-Ching, Ojima, Toshiyuki, Hirai, Hiroshi, Kondo, Katsunori
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Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2872331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20617033
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7041330
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author Murata, Chiyoe
Yamada, Tetsuji
Chen, Chia-Ching
Ojima, Toshiyuki
Hirai, Hiroshi
Kondo, Katsunori
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description Japan is undergoing a set of health care reforms aimed at cutting rising health care costs and increasing the efficiency of health care delivery. This empirical study used a large-scale community survey on 15,302 elderly people 65 years and older (56.0% women) conducted in seven municipalities in 2006, to reveal clear-cut evidence of barriers to necessary care. The reasons for not getting health care is attributed to health care cost for the elderly with lower income, while higher income counterparts reported being busy or having a condition not serious enough to seek care.
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spelling pubmed-28723312010-07-08 Barriers to Health Care among the Elderly in Japan Murata, Chiyoe Yamada, Tetsuji Chen, Chia-Ching Ojima, Toshiyuki Hirai, Hiroshi Kondo, Katsunori Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Japan is undergoing a set of health care reforms aimed at cutting rising health care costs and increasing the efficiency of health care delivery. This empirical study used a large-scale community survey on 15,302 elderly people 65 years and older (56.0% women) conducted in seven municipalities in 2006, to reveal clear-cut evidence of barriers to necessary care. The reasons for not getting health care is attributed to health care cost for the elderly with lower income, while higher income counterparts reported being busy or having a condition not serious enough to seek care. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2010-03-26 2010-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2872331/ /pubmed/20617033 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7041330 Text en © 2010 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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