Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 1330-1341Publisher
MOLECULAR DIVERSITY PRESERVATION INTERNATIONAL-MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph7041330
Keywords
cost burden; socioeconomic status (SES); barriers to health care
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- Japan Society for Promotion of Science [19530490, 21530585]
- Research Council of Rutgers University
- State University of New Jersey, U.S.A. [202361, 202100]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19530490, 21530585] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Japan is undergoing a set of health care reforms aimed at cutting rising health care costs and increasing the efficiency of health care delivery. This empirical study used a large-scale community survey on 15,302 elderly people 65 years and older (56.0% women) conducted in seven municipalities in 2006, to reveal clear-cut evidence of barriers to necessary care. The reasons for not getting health care is attributed to health care cost for the elderly with lower income, while higher income counterparts reported being busy or having a condition not serious enough to seek care.
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