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- Title: High Health Care Utilization and Costs Associated with Lower Socio-Economic Status: Results from a Linked Dataset (Quantitative Research) (Clinical Report)
- Author : Canadian Journal of Public Health
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 301 KB
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Persistent socio-economic inequalities are a costly economic deadweight in terms of higher expenditures on health care, income assistance, social services, correctional services and lost tax revenue. (1) Two reports from Canada and the European Union have concluded that disparities in socio-economic status account for 20% of total health care resources. (2,3) The concern, however, with using estimates of self-report health care utilization through telephone surveys is that the recall of 'number of contacts' with health care services does not demonstrate good validity. (4) The primary purpose of this paper was to use a linked dataset to compare actual health care utilization rates, high health care utilization patterns and overall costs between income groups in Saskatoon, Canada. The second purpose was to use regression analysis to determine which covariates were independently associated with high health care utilization after controlling for disease prevalence.