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Renoncement aux soins : comment appréhender cette réalité en médecine de premier recours ?

Published inRevue médicale suisse, vol. 10, no. 452, p. 2258-2263
Publication date2014
Abstract

Although the performance of the Swiss health system is high, one out of ten patients in general practitioner's (GP) office declares having foregone care in the previous twelve months for economic reasons. Reasons for foregoing care are several and include a lack of knowledge of existing social aids in getting health insurance, unavailability of GPs and long waiting lists for various types of care. Although long term knowledge of patients or a psychosocial history of deprivation or poverty may help identify individuals at risk of foregoing care, many may remain undetected. We propose then a few instruments to help GPs to identify, in a simple and structured approach, patients at risk of forgoing care for economic reasons; these patients are frequently deprived and sometimes poor.

Keywords
  • Aged
  • Cost of Illness
  • Health Expenditures
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Poverty
  • Primary Health Care/economics/standards
  • Switzerland
  • Treatment Refusal
Citation (ISO format)
BODENMANN, Patrick et al. Renoncement aux soins : comment appréhender cette réalité en médecine de premier recours ? In: Revue médicale suisse, 2014, vol. 10, n° 452, p. 2258–2263.
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