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Public pensions and unmet medical need among older people: cross-national analysis of 16 European countries, 2004–2010
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BACKGROUND: Since the onset of the Great Recession in Europe, unmet need for medical care has been increasing, especially in persons aged 65 or older. It is possible that public pensions buffer access to healthcare in older persons during times of economic crisis, but to our knowledge, this has not been tested empirically in Europe. METHODS: We integrated panel data on 16 European countries for years 2004-2010 with indicators of public pension, unemployment insurance and sickness insurance en...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ European Commission
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7th Framework Programme under
grant agreement No. 278511
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health Journal website
- Volume:
- 71
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 174-180
- Publication date:
- 2016-12-13
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1470-2738
- ISSN:
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0143-005X
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:666495
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- pubs:666495
- Deposit date:
- 2016-12-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Reeves et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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