Gender Differences in Routine Health Maintenance Examinations Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

PURPOSE: Adolescent and young adult (AYA) males historically have lower healthcare utilization than their female peers. METHODS: Electronic health record data from an Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine outpatient practice were reviewed to assess gender differences in routine health maintenance examinat...

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Autores principales: Vargas, Gabriela, Prunier, Lee, Borus, Joshua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. 2023
Materias:
Adolescent Health Brief
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9721310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36473777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.09.031
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description PURPOSE: Adolescent and young adult (AYA) males historically have lower healthcare utilization than their female peers. METHODS: Electronic health record data from an Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine outpatient practice were reviewed to assess gender differences in routine health maintenance examinations before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. RESULTS: Routine health maintenance examinations decreased for both males and females during the pandemic. However, a two-proportion z-test demonstrated that established male patients were statistically less likely (p < .01) to have a routine health maintenance examination from December 2020 to December 2021 than their female counterparts. DISCUSSION: AYA males are at a higher risk for persistent disengagement in healthcare and exacerbates future gender gaps in healthcare utilization. Primary care providers need to focus efforts on re-engaging all young people in preventive care, with specific efforts tailored to AYA males.
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spelling pubmed-97213102022-12-06 Gender Differences in Routine Health Maintenance Examinations Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Vargas, Gabriela Prunier, Lee Borus, Joshua J Adolesc Health Adolescent Health Brief PURPOSE: Adolescent and young adult (AYA) males historically have lower healthcare utilization than their female peers. METHODS: Electronic health record data from an Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine outpatient practice were reviewed to assess gender differences in routine health maintenance examinations before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. RESULTS: Routine health maintenance examinations decreased for both males and females during the pandemic. However, a two-proportion z-test demonstrated that established male patients were statistically less likely (p < .01) to have a routine health maintenance examination from December 2020 to December 2021 than their female counterparts. DISCUSSION: AYA males are at a higher risk for persistent disengagement in healthcare and exacerbates future gender gaps in healthcare utilization. Primary care providers need to focus efforts on re-engaging all young people in preventive care, with specific efforts tailored to AYA males. Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. 2023-02 2022-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9721310/ /pubmed/36473777 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.09.031 Text en © 2022 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_short Gender Differences in Routine Health Maintenance Examinations Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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topic Adolescent Health Brief
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.09.031
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