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Health and Social Care Diversity Among Individuals with Longstanding Physical and Psychological Health Problems:
Corine Driessens1, David Kingdon2, David Pilgrim3
1Faculty of Medicine, Clinical and Experimental Science; Room 83 Level F, South Academic Block, Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO16 6YD, England, UK. c.m.driessens@soton.ac.uk.
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.
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