The health of people of Roma ethnicity, has been shown to be poorer compared to people of non-Roma ethnicity in various studies. Health inequalities are bigger in Central and Eastern Europe and they might be mediated by worse access to health care.<\/p>\n
In a newly published study<\/a> in International Journal of Public Health<\/a>, Slovakian researchers Pavol Jarcuska , <\/a>Daniela Bobakova , <\/a>Jan Uhrin, Ladislav Bobak, Ingrid Babinska, Peter Kolarcik, <\/a>Zuzana Veselska and Andrea Madarasova Geckova <\/a>aimed to explore the differences between Roma and non-Roma regarding perceived barriers in accessing health services. Furthermore, they assessed the association between self-rated health status and Roma ethnicity.<\/p>\n The authors used data from 452 Roma and 403 non-Roma taken from the HepaMeta study which was conducted in 2011 in Slovakia. The most important findings are summarized below:<\/p>\n – Roma ethnicity was significantly associated with poor self-rated health status; namely, Roma had three times higher chance to report worse health status.<\/p>\n – Considerable part of the association between Roma ethnicity and worse health status can be explained by perceived barriers in accessing health services.<\/p>\n The authors conclude that interventions should focus not only in increasing health literacy in Roma but also in increasing “Roma literacy” for health care professionals and policy makers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The health of people of Roma ethnicity, has been shown to be poorer compared to people of non-Roma ethnicity in various studies. Health inequalities are bigger in Central and Eastern Europe and they might be mediated by worse access to health care. In a newly published study in International Journal of Public Health, Slovakian researchers… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,21],"tags":[31,374,375,393,759,760,799],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-off-the-press","category-international-journal-of-public-health","category-social-inequalities","tag-access-to-health-care","tag-health-inequalities","tag-health-literacy","tag-hepameta-study","tag-roma","tag-roma-literacy","tag-slovakia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}