Social and spatial disparities in healthcare utilization

Posté le 15/03/2010 07:38

The RECORD group is preparing a project interested in the investigations of social and spatial disparities in healthcare utilization.

This project is based on the reimbursement data from the National Health Insurance System (SNIIR-AM) that have been merged to the RECORD database for each participant, after allowance from the National Data Protection Authority. These healthcare utilization data for the RECORD participants are exclusively manipulated at Inserm with a high degree of confidentiality.

Based on these healthcare utilization data merged to the RECORD database, the aim is to investigate social and spatial disparities in healthcare utilization that exist in the population. Do people from different neighborhoods have an equal access to preventive care? Are there barriers in the access to healthcare services such as specialty care in certain neighborhoods? In case of metabolic problems, e.g., hypertension, do people from different neighborhoods have comparable access to recommended medical treatments? Our aim will be to address these questions and others in our investigations of healthcare utilization behavior in the RECORD Study.

Catégories: Research projects