Public opinion on healthcare in the context of economic crisis: evidence from Portugal

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• dc.contributor.author Popic, Tamara
• dc.contributor.author Schneider, Simone M.
• dc.contributor.author Asensio, Maria
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-07T06:51:57Z
• dc.date.available 2024-05-07T06:51:57Z
• dc.date.issued 2017
• dc.description.abstract This article investigates to what extent austerity-oriented measures introduced in the Portuguese health sector during the recent economic crisis were associated with changes in the public opinion on healthcare. We conducted multivariate regression analyses of cross-sectional, biannual data from the European Social Survey (2002–2015) for 13,271 individuals living in private households in Portugal. In line with our expectations, healthcare evaluations of the general population improved until 2010 but declined with the implementation of comprehensive austerity measures introduced under the Memorandum of Understanding after 2011. Healthcare evaluations of vulnerable social groups – older and retired individuals, individuals with poor health, low income and education – declined particularly strongly. In addition, differences in healthcare evaluations between more and less vulnerable social groups were more pronounced after 2011. Interestingly, healthcare evaluations of the general population and of some of the most vulnerable groups ‘recovered’ in 2015, when most of the Memorandum measures were implemented. Our findings contribute to the literature on the effects of austerity measures on welfare attitudes and stress the need to analyse the differential impact of crisis-induced welfare state reforms across social groups.
• dc.description.sponsorship The authors would like to thank the editors of the Journal of Social Policy and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript. For all statements of fact, data analyses and interpretation of results, the authors alone bear responsibility. This research is part of the NORFACE Welfare State Futures funded research project ‘The Paradox of Health State Futures’ (HEALTHDOX) (EC ERA-Net Plus funding, grant agreement number 618106, file number 462-14-070).
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• dc.identifier.citation Popic T, Schneider SM, Asensio M. Public opinion on healthcare in the context of economic crisis: evidence from Portugal. J Soc Pol. 2019 Dec 19;48(4):741-64. DOI: 10.1017/S0047279418000818
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047279418000818
• dc.identifier.issn 0047-2794
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60033
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Social Policy. 2019 Dec 19;48(4):741-64
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/618106
• dc.rights © Cambridge University Press 2018. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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• dc.subject.other Assistència sanitària
• dc.subject.other Portugal -- Condicions econòmiques
• dc.subject.other Benestar social
• dc.title Public opinion on healthcare in the context of economic crisis: evidence from Portugal
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