Health Services Management Research > Volume 21, Number 1 > Pp. 40-59

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Socioeconomic status and health-care utilization: a study of the effects of low income, unemployment and hours of work on the demand for health care in the European Union

Athina Economou ^*, Agelike Nikolaou ^* and Ioannis Theodossiou  

* Department of Economics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece; Centre for European Labour Market Research, University of Aberdeen Business School, Department of Economics, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

Correspondence to: Ioannis Theodossiou Email: theod{at}abdn.ac.uk

The purpose of this study was to shed light on the individual socioeconomic status and demographic determinants of the demand for health care in a cross-comparison study of nine European Union countries. It focuses on the effects of individual employment status on alternative indicators of demand for health care that constitutes a largely unexplored area. The evidence supports the existence of an employment status-demand for health-care relationship, although it varies with respect to the type of health care examined and the institutional and environmental settings of the countries utilized in the study.

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