Table 2 Health care users
From: How COVID-19 has changed the utilization of different health care services in Poland
Types of health services | N (thousands) | p-value& | % change | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2015/2016–2019 | 2020/ 2019 | 2021/ 2020 | 2021/ 2019 | ||||
Primary health care | n/d | 27793.6 | 28039.5 | 27931.1 | 27923.4 | 25885.2 | 27354.0 | NS | -7.3% | 5.7% | -2.0% | |||
Outpatient specialist care | n/d | 18126.5 | 17893.4 | 17337.0 | 17167.8 | 15189.3 | 15982.6 | 0.022 | -11.5% | 5.2 | -6.9% | |||
Hospital care | - inpatient services | n/d | 9023.1 | 9158.8 | 9379.0 | 9251.1 | 7041.1 | 7589.1 | NS | -23.9% | 7.8 | -18.0% | ||
- drug programmes | n/d | 102.6 | 120.6 | 136.0 | 153.3 | 161.1 | 175.0 | < 0.001 | 5.1% | 8.6% | 14.1% | |||
- chemotherapy | n/d | 132.4 | 132.9 | 134.7 | 138.4 | 134.9 | 142.9 | NS | -2.6% | 5.9% | 3.2% | |||
Preventive health programmes | n/d | 1657.3 | 1694.9 | 1590.0 | 1573.2 | 1070.0 | 1480.0 | NS | -32.0% | 38.3% | -5.9% | |||
Dental care | n/d | 7008.4 | 6785.1 | 6554.5 | 6495.1 | 4988.7 | 5447.2 | 0.025 | -23.2% | 9.2 | -16.1% | |||
Psychiatric care and addiction treatment | n/d | 1684.1 | 1676.8 | 1664.5 | 1602.9 | 1510.5 | 1602.1 | NS | -5.8% | 6.1% | 0.0% | |||
Medical rehabilitation | n/d | 3381.7 | 3357.1 | 3353.1 | 3270.4 | 2716.7 | 2956.1 | NS | -16.9% | 8.8 | -9.6% | |||
Health resort rehabilitation | n/d | 407.9 | 401.7 | 404.1 | 406.1 | 204.3 | 265.6 | NS | -49.7% | 30.0 | -34.6% | |||
Long-term care | n/d | 104.8 | 110.2 | 109.6 | 109.2 | 107.3 | 112.8 | NS | -1.8% | 5.1% | 3.2% | |||
Palliative care | n/d | 88.5 | 91.9 | 95.2 | 101.2 | 90.9 | 93.1 | 0.012 | -10.1% | 2.4 | -7.9% | |||
Outpatient medicines* | 251891.4 | 264579.0 | 257035.8 | 274241.9 | 255293.2 | 247015.7 | 248889.5 | NS | -3.2% | 0.8 | -2.5% | |||
Medical devices* | n/d | 1617.7 | 1707.1 | 1758.9 | 1822.7 | 1671.0 | 1897.0 | < 0.001 | -8.3% | 13.5% | 4.1% | |||