Skip to main content

Lund University Publications

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Health Care Utilisation and Attitudes towards Health Care in Subjects Reporting Environmental Annoyance from Electricity and Chemicals.

Eek, Frida LU ; Merlo, Juan LU orcid ; Gerdtham, Ulf LU orcid and Lithman, Thor (2009) In Journal of Environmental and Public Health 2009(Apr 14).
Abstract
Environmentally intolerant persons report decreased self-rated health and daily functioning. However, it remains unclear whether this condition also results in increased health care costs. The aim of this study was to describe the health care consumption and attitudes towards health care in subjects presenting subjective environmental annoyance in relation to the general population, as well as to a group with a well-known disorder as treated hypertension (HT). Methods. Postal questionnaire (n = 13 604) and record linkage with population-based register on health care costs. Results. Despite significantly lower subjective well being and health than both the general population and HT group, the environmentally annoyed subjects had lower... (More)
Environmentally intolerant persons report decreased self-rated health and daily functioning. However, it remains unclear whether this condition also results in increased health care costs. The aim of this study was to describe the health care consumption and attitudes towards health care in subjects presenting subjective environmental annoyance in relation to the general population, as well as to a group with a well-known disorder as treated hypertension (HT). Methods. Postal questionnaire (n = 13 604) and record linkage with population-based register on health care costs. Results. Despite significantly lower subjective well being and health than both the general population and HT group, the environmentally annoyed subjects had lower health care costs than the hypertension group. In contrast to the hypertension group, the environmentally annoyed subjects expressed more negative attitudes toward the health care than the general population. Conclusions. Despite their impaired subjective health and functional capacity, health care utilisation costs were not much increased for the environmentally annoyed group. This may partly depend on negative attitudes towards the health care in this group. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
; ; and
organization
publishing date
type
Contribution to journal
publication status
published
subject
in
Journal of Environmental and Public Health
volume
2009
issue
Apr 14
article number
106389
publisher
Hindawi Limited
external identifiers
  • pmid:19936124
  • scopus:77953813801
ISSN
1687-9813
DOI
10.1155/2009/106389
language
English
LU publication?
yes
id
5b1c21fe-db84-4b8c-82b9-104e2e8b0e54 (old id 1511585)
alternative location
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19936124?dopt=Abstract
date added to LUP
2016-04-04 07:03:18
date last changed
2022-01-29 01:38:45
@article{5b1c21fe-db84-4b8c-82b9-104e2e8b0e54,
  abstract     = {{Environmentally intolerant persons report decreased self-rated health and daily functioning. However, it remains unclear whether this condition also results in increased health care costs. The aim of this study was to describe the health care consumption and attitudes towards health care in subjects presenting subjective environmental annoyance in relation to the general population, as well as to a group with a well-known disorder as treated hypertension (HT). Methods. Postal questionnaire (n = 13 604) and record linkage with population-based register on health care costs. Results. Despite significantly lower subjective well being and health than both the general population and HT group, the environmentally annoyed subjects had lower health care costs than the hypertension group. In contrast to the hypertension group, the environmentally annoyed subjects expressed more negative attitudes toward the health care than the general population. Conclusions. Despite their impaired subjective health and functional capacity, health care utilisation costs were not much increased for the environmentally annoyed group. This may partly depend on negative attitudes towards the health care in this group.}},
  author       = {{Eek, Frida and Merlo, Juan and Gerdtham, Ulf and Lithman, Thor}},
  issn         = {{1687-9813}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{Apr 14}},
  publisher    = {{Hindawi Limited}},
  series       = {{Journal of Environmental and Public Health}},
  title        = {{Health Care Utilisation and Attitudes towards Health Care in Subjects Reporting Environmental Annoyance from Electricity and Chemicals.}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/106389}},
  doi          = {{10.1155/2009/106389}},
  volume       = {{2009}},
  year         = {{2009}},
}