Evaluating the impact of the 2010 Swedish choice reform in primary health care on avoidable hospitalization and socioeconomic inequities: an interrupted time series analysis using register data

Evaluating the impact of the 2010 Swedish choice reform in primary health care on avoidable hospitalization and socioeconomic inequities: an interrupted time series analysis using register data

Abstract Background The Swedish Primary Health Care (PHC) system has, like in other European countries, undergone a gradual transition towards marketization and privatization, most distinctly through a 2010 choice reform. The reform led to an overall but regionally heterogenous expansion of private...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Per E. Gustafsson, Osvaldo Fonseca-Rodríguez, Miguel San Sebastián, Bo Burström, Paola A. Mosquera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-08-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Subjects:
Primary health care
Health reform
Health inequities
Health care performance
Interrupted time series
Register research
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11434-w

Internet

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11434-w

Similar Items