The Impact of Universal Health Care Programmes on Improving ‘Realized Access’ to Care for Depression in Chile
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2018
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Abstract
Universal health care programmes have the potential to reduce treatment gaps. We explored the potential impact of an equityoriented universal health care programme on access to care for depression, hypertension and diabetes using data from two nationally representative health surveys in Chile. The likelihood a depressed individual had accessed health care appears to have increased significantly after the programme was introduced whereas those for hypertension and diabetes remained unchanged. Depressed women seem to have benefited mostly from the programme. Universal health care programmes for
depression could substantially increase coverage and reduce inequities in access to health care in middle-income countries
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Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research (2018) 45:790–799
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Universal coverage, Scaling up, Treatment gap, Depressive disorders, Non-communicable diseases