Open AccessHealth status of patients who suffer from acute and chronic respiratory diseases in Greece in the era of economic crisis
Author(s) -
Panagiota Koutsimpou,
Konstantinos Gourgoulianis,
Athina Economou,
Vasilios Raftopoulos
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
advances in respiratory medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 2543-6031
pISSN - 2451-4934
DOI - 10.5603/arm.2019.0028
Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , copd , depression (economics) , anxiety , disease , pneumonia , public health , physical therapy , pediatrics , psychiatry , nursing , economics , macroeconomics
In Greece, the last decade, the harsh austerity measures, that were enacted, had a huge impact on patients' suffering from chronic diseases. The aim of the current study was to assess the financial ability of the patients suffering from an acute or chronic respiratory disease hospitalized in an urban pulmonary university clinic in central Greece and to explore the correlation of their health status with their financial ability.