Financial Burden of Medical Care, Dental Care, and Medicines among Older-Aged Population in Slovenia, Serbia, and Croatia

Katarina Vojvodic, Zorica Terzic-Supic, Jovana Todorovic, Cristina Gagliardi, Milena Santric-Milicevic and Marina Popovic
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Katarina Vojvodic: Department for Healthcare Quality Improvement, Institute of Public Health of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Zorica Terzic-Supic: Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Social Medicine, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Jovana Todorovic: Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Social Medicine, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Cristina Gagliardi: Centre for Socio-Economic Research on Ageing, IRCCS INRCA-National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing, 60124 Ancona, Italy
Milena Santric-Milicevic: Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Social Medicine, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Marina Popovic: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 6, 1-23

Abstract: The aim was to explore the factors associated with the financial burden (FB) of medical care, dental care, and medicines among older-aged people in Slovenia, Serbia, and Croatia using EU-SILC 2017. The highest frequency of FB of medical care and medicines was in Croatia (50% and 69.1%, respectively) and of dental care in Slovenia (48.5%). The multivariate logistic regression analysis with FB as an outcome variable showed that the FB of medical care was associated with being married (OR: 1.54), reporting not severe (OR: 1.51) and severe limitations in daily activities (OR: 2.05), having higher education (OR: 2.03), and heavy burden of housing costs (OR: 0.51) in Slovenia, with very bad self-perceived health (OR: 5.23), having the slight (OR: 0.69) or heavy (OR: 0.47) burden of housing costs, making ends meet fairly easily or with some difficulty (OR: 3.58) or with difficulty or great difficulty (OR: 6.80) in Serbia, and with being married (OR: 1.43), having heavy burden of housing costs (OR: 0.62), and making ends meet fairly easily or with some difficulty (OR: 2.08) or with difficulty or great difficulty (OR: 2.52) in Croatia. The older-aged have the FB of healthcare, especially the poorest or those with health problems.

Keywords: financial burden; healthcare; older-aged; likelihood; medical care; dental care; medicines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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