Pavol Jar?uška|Daniela Fi?akovská Bobáková|Jan Uhrin|L Bobák|Ingrid Babinská|Peter Kolar?ík|Zuzana Dankulincová Veselská|Andrea Madarasová Gecková
Are barriers in accessing health services in the Roma population associated with worse health status among Roma?
University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik|Institute for Sociology|Univerzitná Nemocnica Louisa Pasteura|University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik|Univerzitná Nemocnica Louisa Pasteura|Institute for Sociology|Institute for Sociology|Institute for Sociology|Palacký University Olomouc
health roma found poorer majority population aim study explore differences roma nonroma regarding perceived barriers accessing health services furthermore aimed assess association selfrated health status roma ethnicity explore degree barriers accessing health services explain association used data crosssectional hepameta study conducted 2011 slovakia final sample comprised 452 roma mean age 347 352 men 403 mean age 335 459 men nonroma respondents roma ethnicity found significantly associated poorer selfrated health status considerable part association explained barriers accessing health services perceived roma worse health roma partially mediated worse access health services apart large educational gap roma living settlements majority population interventions focus health literacy among roma also health care system health care professionals