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<p>The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on the global economy, including the provision of health services, with medical facilities and patients cancelling or postponing medical appointments. An alternative to in-person appointments was through the available forms of telemedicine. Scientific reports around the world have suggested that the accessibility and quality of health services declined. The aim of this study was to investigate the accessibility and quality of health services in Poland and to verify whether there were differences between men and women in this respect. The study was based on the authors’ own survey questionnaire filled in by 265 respondents, including 181 women, 82 men, and 2 persons without a defined gender. The study revealed that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the accessibility and quality of health services declined. Additionally, women were more likely to use general and specialist health services than men, but a comparison of changes in the assessment of accessibility and quality of services by gender revealed no differences in the assessment of accessibility and quality.</p>
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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on the global economy, including the provision of health services, with medical facilities and patients cancelling or postponing medical appointments. An alternative to in-person appointments was through the available forms of telemedicine. Scientific reports around the world have suggested that the accessibility and quality of health services declined. The aim of this study was to investigate the accessibility and quality of health services in Poland and to verify whether there were differences between men and women in this respect. The study was based on the authors’ own survey questionnaire filled in by 265 respondents, including 181 women, 82 men, and 2 persons without a defined gender. The study revealed that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the accessibility and quality of health services declined. Additionally, women were more likely to use general and specialist health services than men, but a comparison of changes in the assessment of accessibility and quality of services by gender revealed no differences in the assessment of accessibility and quality.

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected the Accessibility and Quality of Health Services in Poland

Department of Social Sciences and the Humanities

Department of Humanization of Health Care and Sexology

Collegium Medicum, University of Zielona Góra

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on the global economy, including the provision of health services, with medical facilities and patients...

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected the Accessibility and Quality of Health Services in Poland

Publicado en línea: 30 dic 2021

Páginas: 561 - 572

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2021-0032

© 2021 Magdalena Tuczyńska et al., published by Sciendo

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