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C1a Food Insecurity and Unmet Healthcare Needs Among Korean Adults: Cross-Sectional Evidence From KNHANES
Short Description
In this study, we sought to understand the extent of unmet healthcare needs among food insecure households in Korea. Despite the universal healthcare system, Korean citizens continue to pay a large share of medical expenses out-of-pocket (OOP). The share at which healthcare takes part in total household consumption is more than 5% in 2019, which is higher than the OECD average of 3.1% (OECD, 2021). The co-payment burden is disproportionately higher for low-income households as they face greater needs for costly medical treatments (Choi et al., 2015). Understanding the dual challenges of healthcare financing and food insecurity is critically important but remains yet to be fully understood in the Korean context. To fill the gap in the literature, this study aims to estimate the association between the severity of food insecurity and unmet healthcare needs among Korean adults. This study hypothesized that (a) food insecurity is related to unmet healthcare needs adjusted for sociodemographic covariates, and (b) the association is dose-graded so that severe food insecurity is associated with greater unmet needs for medical services. We evaluate our hypotheses using nationally representative data drawn from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for the periods of 2013-2015; 2019 and 2020.
Type of presentation
Accepted Oral Presentation