Health Populi September 16, 2024
Women in the U.S. are more likely to avoid care than men in America, Deloitte found in the consulting firm’s latest survey on consumers and health care.
Deloitte coins this phenomenon as a “triple-threat” that women face in the U.S. health care environment, the 3 “threats” being,
- Affordability,
- Access, and,
- Prior experience — that is the health disparity among women who have seen personal mis-diagnosis, bias, or treatment that hasn’t been consistent with current protocols and practices.
The data come out of Deloitte’s fielding of the U.S. consumer survey in February and March, 2024.
Here are the many reasons a woman living in America has for skipping or delaying health care, Deloitte illustrated in Figure 3 from the...
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