ArticleHealth expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy2026
Socio-Demographic Inequalities in COVID-19 Health Care Access and Experiences in the United Kingdom: Intersectional and Mixed-Methods Analyses of Open and Closed Questions in a Prospective Cohort Study.
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introductionInequalities in health care access and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic have been observed along axes of social advantage. It is less well understood how access to care varied intersectionally with combinations of multiple social factors, and how social advantage shaped care experiences for COVID-19 illness.
methodsWe analysed responses to both closed (N = 3516) and open (N = 335) survey questions relating to health and social care access and experiences during the first two and a half years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom community-based cohort, COVID Symptom Study Biobank. Causal effects of individual socio-demographic variables on access to health and social care were estimated with multivariable regression models, weighted for inverse probability of survey completion and adjusted for potential confounders. Associations between care access issues and social strata comprising combinations of sex, education level and local area deprivation were estimated using the intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) approach. Responses to open questions on health care experiences for COVID-19 illness were deductively coded and quantitatively analysed to estimate associations between socio-demographic advantage and various aspects of care experiences.
resultsGradients in health and social care access along the lines of social advantage were observed in intersectional MAIHDA models, with the predicted probability of access issues highest for the stratum comprising female participants with lowest education and highest deprivation levels (42.9%, 95% CI: 31.9%-54.6%), and lowest for male participants with highest education and lowest deprivation (18.7%, 95% CI: 12.8%-26.7%). Socially disadvantaged participants also reported receiving poorer care for COVID-19, with lower likelihood of reporting receiving adequate care and specialist care for long COVID, and higher likelihood of negative experiences of care versus advantaged participants.
conclusionsInequalities in likelihood of health and social care access issues were observed, as well as inequalities in care experiences specifically for COVID-19, with issues accessing care and poorer experiences more likely to be reported by individuals with greater social disadvantage.
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