TY - JOUR AU - Van den Bosch, Karel AU - Geerts, Joanna AU - Willemé, Peter PY - 2013 DA - 2013/01/03 TI - Long-term care use and socio-economic status in Belgium: a survival analysis using health care insurance data JO - Archives of Public Health SP - 1 VL - 71 IS - 1 AB - The small but growing literature on socio-economic inequality in morbidity among older persons suggests that social inequalities in health persist into old age. A largely separate body of literature looks at the predictors of long-term care use, in particular of institutional care. Various measures of socio-economic status are often included as control variables in these studies. Review articles generally conclude that the evidence for such variables being a predictor for institutionalization is “inconclusive”. In this paper we look at the association among older persons in Belgium between one particular measure of socio-economic status – preferential status in public health care insurance – and first use of home long-term care and residential care. Preferential status entitles persons to higher reimbursement rates for health care from the public health care insurance system and is conditional on low income. We also study whether preferential status is related to the onset of five important chronic conditions and the time of death. SN - 2049-3258 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/0778-7367-71-1 DO - 10.1186/0778-7367-71-1 ID - Van den Bosch2013 ER -