Citation

Driessens C, Kingdon D, Pilgrim D, Smith PWF. Community Ment. Health J. 2020; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Department of Social Statistics & Demography - Social Sciences, University of Southampton, Building 39 Room 2009, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, England, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10597-020-00566-y

PMID

32036518

Abstract

This paper examines differences in health-and-social care utilisation for individuals with physical and/or mental health problems. Logistic regression models are used to determine disparity in the percentage of General Household/Lifestyle Survey participants with physical compared to mental health problems receiving disability benefits or health care services between 2000 and 2011. Our findings of a relative underutilisation of secondary health care combined with a relative overutilization of out-of-work benefits by individuals with mental health problems is novel to the field of rehabilitative health care. These results provide evidence for the previously suspected disparity in health care utilisation of individuals with mental health problems and indicate problems in labour force integration. The findings support the political call for a 'parity of esteem', which, in Britain, was enshrined in the Health and Social Care Act of 2012.

Language: en

Keywords

General household survey; General lifestyle survey; Health care; Mental health problems; Parity of esteem; Social care