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title = "Self-perception of health status and socio-economic differences in the use of health services",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Family income, Medical appointment, National health survey, Social classis, Territorial unit",
author = "Alexandra Pinto and Victor Lobo and Fernando Ba{\c c}{\~a}o and Helena Bacelar-Nicolau",
note = "Pinto, A., Lobo, V., Ba{\c c}{\~a}o, F., & Bacelar-Nicolau, H. (2013). Self-perception of health status and socio-economic differences in the use of health services. In Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Selected Papers of the Statistical Societies (pp. 355-362). (Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Selected Papers of the Statistical Societies). Springer International Publishing Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34904-1_37",
year = "2013",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-34904-1_37",
language = "English",
series = "Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Selected Papers of the Statistical Societies",
publisher = "Springer International Publishing",
pages = "355--362",
booktitle = "Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Selected Papers of the Statistical Societies",
address = "Switzerland",
}