Differential Mortality and Inequalities in Health Services Access in Mainland Portugal

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Autor(a) principal: Vidal, Diogo Guedes
Data de Publicação: 2018
Outros Autores: Pontes, Manuela, Barreira, Maria Esmeralda, Oliveira, Gisela, Maia, Rui Leandro
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10284/7650
Resumo: The guarantee of the right to health protection, with the priority of overcoming health inequalities, is a main goal of the Portuguese national Health service. in this context, health care access equity in mainland Portugal continues to be a challenge for public health policies, with a littoral territory where health services are concentrated and interior depopulated zones, stripped of health services and isolated in physical and social terms. Based on 2001 and 2011 data from POrData, the present article studies how mor-tality is related to the distribution of health services – namely hospital infrastructures, health centres and health professionals – and with population characteristics related to illiteracy and ageing. The results show a strong association between mortality and the distribution of health services, highlighting increasing mortality in the context of decreasing health servi-ces, worsening when related to population illiteracy and ageing. results reveal the impor-tance of designing public policies at the local level, focused on territorial socio-cultural spe-cificities, which are mainly materialized in a distribution of health services closer to isolated populations according to their needs.
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spelling Differential Mortality and Inequalities in Health Services Access in Mainland PortugalDifferential MortalityNational Health ServiceEquityInequalitiesTerritoryThe guarantee of the right to health protection, with the priority of overcoming health inequalities, is a main goal of the Portuguese national Health service. in this context, health care access equity in mainland Portugal continues to be a challenge for public health policies, with a littoral territory where health services are concentrated and interior depopulated zones, stripped of health services and isolated in physical and social terms. Based on 2001 and 2011 data from POrData, the present article studies how mor-tality is related to the distribution of health services – namely hospital infrastructures, health centres and health professionals – and with population characteristics related to illiteracy and ageing. The results show a strong association between mortality and the distribution of health services, highlighting increasing mortality in the context of decreasing health servi-ces, worsening when related to population illiteracy and ageing. results reveal the impor-tance of designing public policies at the local level, focused on territorial socio-cultural spe-cificities, which are mainly materialized in a distribution of health services closer to isolated populations according to their needs.Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos GeográficosRepositório Institucional da Universidade Fernando PessoaVidal, Diogo GuedesPontes, ManuelaBarreira, Maria EsmeraldaOliveira, GiselaMaia, Rui Leandro2019-06-07T07:25:03Z2018-01-01T00:00:00Z2018-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10284/7650engVidal, D.G.; Pontes, M.; Barreira, E.; Oliveira, G.M.; Maia, R.L.. 2018. "Differential mortality and inequalities in health services access in Mainland Portugal". Finisterra 53 (109): 53-7010.18055/Finis14118info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2022-09-06T02:07:01Zoai:bdigital.ufp.pt:10284/7650Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T15:44:33.710304Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Differential Mortality and Inequalities in Health Services Access in Mainland Portugal
title Differential Mortality and Inequalities in Health Services Access in Mainland Portugal
spellingShingle Differential Mortality and Inequalities in Health Services Access in Mainland Portugal
Vidal, Diogo Guedes
Differential Mortality
National Health Service
Equity
Inequalities
Territory
title_short Differential Mortality and Inequalities in Health Services Access in Mainland Portugal
title_full Differential Mortality and Inequalities in Health Services Access in Mainland Portugal
title_fullStr Differential Mortality and Inequalities in Health Services Access in Mainland Portugal
title_full_unstemmed Differential Mortality and Inequalities in Health Services Access in Mainland Portugal
title_sort Differential Mortality and Inequalities in Health Services Access in Mainland Portugal
author Vidal, Diogo Guedes
author_facet Vidal, Diogo Guedes
Pontes, Manuela
Barreira, Maria Esmeralda
Oliveira, Gisela
Maia, Rui Leandro
author_role author
author2 Pontes, Manuela
Barreira, Maria Esmeralda
Oliveira, Gisela
Maia, Rui Leandro
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório Institucional da Universidade Fernando Pessoa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Vidal, Diogo Guedes
Pontes, Manuela
Barreira, Maria Esmeralda
Oliveira, Gisela
Maia, Rui Leandro
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Differential Mortality
National Health Service
Equity
Inequalities
Territory
topic Differential Mortality
National Health Service
Equity
Inequalities
Territory
description The guarantee of the right to health protection, with the priority of overcoming health inequalities, is a main goal of the Portuguese national Health service. in this context, health care access equity in mainland Portugal continues to be a challenge for public health policies, with a littoral territory where health services are concentrated and interior depopulated zones, stripped of health services and isolated in physical and social terms. Based on 2001 and 2011 data from POrData, the present article studies how mor-tality is related to the distribution of health services – namely hospital infrastructures, health centres and health professionals – and with population characteristics related to illiteracy and ageing. The results show a strong association between mortality and the distribution of health services, highlighting increasing mortality in the context of decreasing health servi-ces, worsening when related to population illiteracy and ageing. results reveal the impor-tance of designing public policies at the local level, focused on territorial socio-cultural spe-cificities, which are mainly materialized in a distribution of health services closer to isolated populations according to their needs.
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