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Health and Social Care Diversity Among Individuals with Longstanding Physical and Psychological Health Problems: Pooled Repeated Cross Sectional Analyses

Authors: Corine Driessens, David Kingdon, David Pilgrim, Peter W. F. Smith

Published in: Community Mental Health Journal | Issue 5/2020

Abstract

This paper examines differences in health-and-social care utilisation for individuals with physical and/or mental health problems. Logistic regression models are used to determine disparity in the percentage of General Household/Lifestyle Survey participants with physical compared to mental health problems receiving disability benefits or health care services between 2000 and 2011. Our findings of a relative underutilisation of secondary health care combined with a relative overutilization of out-of-work benefits by individuals with mental health problems is novel to the field of rehabilitative health care. These results provide evidence for the previously suspected disparity in health care utilisation of individuals with mental health problems and indicate problems in labour force integration. The findings support the political call for a ‘parity of esteem’, which, in Britain, was enshrined in the Health and Social Care Act of 2012.

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Title: Health and Social Care Diversity Among Individuals with Longstanding Physical and Psychological Health Problems: Pooled Repeated Cross Sectional Analyses
Authors: Corine Driessens
David Kingdon
David Pilgrim
Peter W. F. Smith
Publication date: 01-07-2020
Publisher: Springer US
Keyword: Care
Published in: Community Mental Health Journal / Issue 5/2020
Print ISSN: 0010-3853
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2789
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00566-y

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