Gender differences in accessing cardiac surgery across England: a cross-sectional analysis of the Health Survey for England

Wei Dong, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Helen Colhoun and Nish Chaturvedi

Social Science & Medicine, 1998, vol. 47, issue 11, 1773-1780

Abstract: Objective: to examine gender differences in access to cardiac surgery in a nationally representative sample. Design: nationwide cross sectional household based survey (Health Survey for England). Setting: private households in England around 1993 and 1994. Subjects: 1708 subjects reporting a history of either doctor diagnosed angina or heart attack from a stratified random sample of 32[punctuation space]378 people aged 16 and above. Outcome measure: the proportion reporting having had cardiac surgery or on a waiting list. Results: 13.5% reported previous (n=206) or pending (n=25) cardiac surgery. Men were more likely than women to have had or to be waiting for cardiac surgery (19.1% of men versus 6.8% of women, [chi]2 54.7, P

Keywords: heart; surgery; health; services; accessibility; gender; bias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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