Unmet need for health care during pregnancy: A French – Romanian comparison

Lydie Ancelot, Liliane Bonnal, Marc-Hubert Depret (), Pascal Favard, Dănuţ-Vasile Jemna and Christiana Brigitte Sandu ()
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Lydie Ancelot: CRIEF [Poitiers] - Centre de recherche sur l'intégration économique et financière - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers
Marc-Hubert Depret: UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers, CRIEF [Poitiers] - Centre de recherche sur l'intégration économique et financière - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers
Dănuţ-Vasile Jemna: UAIC - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași = Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iași
Christiana Brigitte Sandu: UAIC - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași = Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iași

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Abstract: Health inequalities emerge from birth, the early neonatal mortality and infant mortality rates being different between countries. These differences may be related to inequalities in use of health care during pregnancy. The aim of this research is to identify and compare the profiles of women who do not follow pregnancy health care recommendations in two European countries with different health systems and indicators: namely France and Romania. However, health care recommendations for pregnant women are free in the two countries. Firstly, unmet need for health care during pregnancy is observed. Secondly, our results reveal that there is a relationship between perinatal health care abandonment and several forms of inequalities (social, informational and psychological). Thirdly, the much higher probability of forgoing perinatal health care for Romanian women could be associated with financial or informational problems which seems counterintuitive because perinatal health care recommendations are free. Free coverage is too insufficient to ensure the efficiency of the perinatal health care system.

Keywords: Health system; unmet nedd for health care; pregancy; social health inequalities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Published in Applied Economics, 2020, 52 (12), pp.1298-1310. ⟨10.1080/00036846.2019.1660301⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2019.1660301

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