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A problem that Portugal is facing, which needs urgent effective health policies, is the socio-economic differences and inequalities that arise in access to health care. In this study we used data from National Health Survey of 2005/2006 to investigate if socio-economic differences are related both to the frequency which health services are used and to self-perception of health status (SP-HS). We considered all data (Portugal) and also each region of NUTS II (Standard Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics purposes), separately. The study points to a strong association between the SP-HS and the factors: gender, age, education level and income. The number of medical appointments showed weaker results with these factors.
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National Institute of Statistics of Portugal.
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Standard Nomenclature of Territorial Units for statistics purposes.
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National Institute of Statistics of Portugal.
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Pinto, A., Lobo, V., Bação, F., Bacelar-Nicolau, H. (2013). Self-perception of Health Status and Socio-Economic Differences in the Use of Health Services. In: Lita da Silva, J., Caeiro, F., Natário, I., Braumann, C. (eds) Advances in Regression, Survival Analysis, Extreme Values, Markov Processes and Other Statistical Applications. Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34904-1_37
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