Socioeconomic Status and Waiting Times for Health Services: Current Evidences and Next Area of Research

Waiting times are an issue in many countries, excessive waiting for treatments may deteriorate patient’s health status and reduce treatment effectiveness potentially, becoming a barrier in the access to health care services. Waiting time to be equitable should be related only to the health need, peo...

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Autores principales: Landi, Stefano, Ivaldi, Enrico, Testi, Angela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6724484/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31516311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1178632919871295
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description Waiting times are an issue in many countries, excessive waiting for treatments may deteriorate patient’s health status and reduce treatment effectiveness potentially, becoming a barrier in the access to health care services. Waiting time to be equitable should be related only to the health need, people with the same health need have to wait the same time, without any difference due to socioeconomic status. In the commentary, the results of the extensive literature review and policy implications are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-67244842019-09-12 Socioeconomic Status and Waiting Times for Health Services: Current Evidences and Next Area of Research Landi, Stefano Ivaldi, Enrico Testi, Angela Health Serv Insights Commentary Waiting times are an issue in many countries, excessive waiting for treatments may deteriorate patient’s health status and reduce treatment effectiveness potentially, becoming a barrier in the access to health care services. Waiting time to be equitable should be related only to the health need, people with the same health need have to wait the same time, without any difference due to socioeconomic status. In the commentary, the results of the extensive literature review and policy implications are discussed. SAGE Publications 2019-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6724484/ /pubmed/31516311 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1178632919871295 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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