Payer nuit gravement à la santé: une étude de l’impact du renoncement financier aux soins sur l’état de santé

Paul Dourgnon, Florence Jusot and Romain Fantin
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Paul Dourgnon: LEDa - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Romain Fantin: IRDES - Institut de Recherche et Documentation en Economie de la Santé - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres

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Abstract: This article focusses on self-assessed unmet needs for financial reasons. We study its social and economic determinants and its consequences on future health status, from a longitu-dinal dataset: the French Heath, Health care and Insurance Survey (Enquête Santé Protection Sociale). We first show that living standards, access to complementary health insurance and life course factors (past, current and anticipated socioeconomic status) have an impact on self-assessed unmet needs. We then show that self-assessed unmet needs have a detrimental causal effect on future health status,suggesting that financial barriers in access to health care contribute to social health inequalities.

Keywords: social health inequalities; financial access to healthcare services; Self assessed unmet needs; accès financier aux soins; renoncement aux soins; inégalité de santé (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in Economie publique : Etudes et recherches = Public economics, 2012, 28-29, pp.123-147

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