High Client Fees Hampered Access to Care, Percentage of Persons Who Used Health Services, Low-Level Education (From 2018)
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The indicator shows the percentage of health service users who felt that excessively high customer charges at least sometimes hampered access to care. Those aged 20 or over with a relatively low level of education are examined. The relative level of education has been calculated for each decade of age based on the years of education indicated by the respondents to the study. Based on the question: "Have the following factors interfered with you receiving treatment in the past 12 months?": - Excessively high customer charges made it difficult to receive treatment. The response options were: 1) always, 2) most of the time, 3) sometimes, 4) never, 5) does not apply to me or the services I have used. The examination includes the respondents choosing option 1), 2) or 3) who had used health services.
Numerator
Number of people aged 20 or older with relatively low education who selected option 1, 2 or 3.
Denominator
Total number of people aged 20 or older with relatively medium education who completed the survey.
Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
The well-being services county, region, whole country
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Healthy Finland Survey (THL)