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| Title: | Medical care needs for patients receiving home healthcare in Taiwan: Do gender and income matter? |
| Authors: | Huang, FY;Ho, CH;Liao, JY;Hsiung, CA;Yu, SJ;Zhang, KP;Chen, PJ |
| Contributors: | Institute of Population Health Sciences |
| Abstract: | Studies about medical care needs for home healthcare (HHC) previously focused on disease patterns but not gender and income differences. We used the Taiwan National Health Research Insurance Database from 1997 to 2013 to examine trends in medical care needs for patients who received HHC, and the gender and income gaps in medical care needs, which were represented by resource utilization groups (RUG). We aimed to clarify three questions: 1. Are women at a higher level of medical care needs for HHC than men, 2. Does income relate to medical care needs? 3. Is the interaction term (gender and income) related to the likelihood of medical care needs? Results showed that the highest level of medical care need in HHC was reducing whereas the basic levels of medical care need for HHC are climbing over time in Taiwan during 1998 and 2013. The percentages of women with income-dependent status in RUG1 to RUG4 are 26.43%, 26.24%, 30.68%, and 32.07%, respectively. Women were more likely to have higher medical care needs than men (RUG 3: odds ratio, OR = 1.17, 95% confidence interval, CI = 1.10-1.25; RUG4: OR = 1.13, 95% CI = 1.06-1.22) in multivariates regression test. Compared to the patients with the high-income status, patients with the income-dependent status were more likely to receive RUG3 (OR = 2.34, 95% CI = 1.77-3.09) and RUG4 (OR = 1.98, 95% CI = 1.44-2.71). The results are consistent with the perspectives of fundamental causes of disease and feminization of poverty theory, implying gender and income inequalities in medical care needs. Policymakers should increase public spending for delivering home-based integrated care resources, especially for women with lower income, to reduce the double burden of female poverty at the higher levels of medical care needs for HHC. |
| Date: | 2021-02-25 |
| Relation: | PLoS ONE. 2021 Feb 25;16(2):Article number e0247622. |
| Link to: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247622 |
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| Cited Times(WOS): | https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000624536800011 |
| Cited Times(Scopus): | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85102060194 |
| Appears in Collections: | [熊昭] 期刊論文
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