Open AccessFinancial difficulty in community-dwelling persons with lower limb loss is associated with reduced self-perceived health and wellbeing
Author(s) -
SzuPing Lee,
Lung-Chang Chien,
Tyler Chin,
Heather Fox,
Juan Gutierrez
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
prosthetics and orthotics international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.729
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1746-1553
pISSN - 0309-3646
DOI - 10.1177/0309364620921756
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , amputation , quality of life (healthcare) , rehabilitation , medicine , psychology , physical therapy , finance , gerontology , population , psychiatry , environmental health , nursing , economics
Socioeconomic status has been shown to be an important factor in the disparate prevalence and selected treatment of limb loss, but how personal financial difficulty affects patients' health outcomes is currently unclear.