Unmet health care needs during the COVID-19 pandemic among adults: a prospective cohort study in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging – CMAJ
February 14, 2023
Jayati Khattar, Laura N. Anderson, Vanessa De Rubeis, Margaret de Groh, Ying Jiang, Aaron Jones, Nicole E. Basta, Susan Kirkland, Christina Wolfson, Lauren E. Griffith and Parminder Raina; for the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team
Abstract
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic affected access to health care services in Canada; however, limited research examines the influence of the social determinants of health on unmet health care needs during the first year of the pandemic. The objectives of this study were to describe unmet health care needs during the first year of the pandemic and to investigate the association of unmet needs with the social determinants of health.
Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study of 23 972 adults participating in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) COVID-19 Study (April–December 2020) to identify the social determinants of health associated with unmet health care needs during the pandemic.
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