Table 4 Primary health care preventive services
From: How COVID-19 has changed the utilization of different health care services in Poland
Types of health services | N (thousands) | p-value& | % change | ||||||||||
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2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2015/2016–2019 | 2020/ 2019 | 2021/ 2020 | 2021/ 2019 | |||
Primary health care physicians | |||||||||||||
Patronage visits for children and adolescents | 180.7 | 186.8 | 195.3 | 186.7 | 176.0 | 113.6 | 126.3 | NS | -35.5% | 11.2 | -28.2% | ||
Periodic health checks for children | 1206.7 | 1137.1 | 1151.1 | 1116.0 | 1001.1 | 514.0 | 851.5 | 0.036 | -48.7% | 65.7% | -14.9% | ||
Cardiovascular disease prevention services | 65.8 | 58.6 | 82.6 | 79.7 | 88.3 | 41.5 | 42.7 | NS | -53.1% | 3.0 | -51.7% | ||
Primary health care nurses | |||||||||||||
Patronage visits for children aged 6 and less | 124.0 | 127.7 | 120.7 | 117.1 | 107.7 | 69.9 | 63.9 | 0.041 | -35.1% | -8.6% | -40.7% | ||
Children who underwent screening tests | n/d | 907.8 | 862.3 | 879.9 | 900.1 | 609.6 | 706.0 | NS | -32.3% | 15.8 | -21.6% | ||
Primary health care midwives | |||||||||||||
Patronage visits | 1440.1 | 1514.9 | 1609.7 | 1573.0 | 1539.8 | 1887.8 | 1291.1 | NS | 22.6 | -31.6% | -16.1% | ||
Visits with antenatal education for pregnant women$ | n/d | 1143.4 | 1195.8 | 1210.6 | 1329.3 | 1085.0 | 1195.3 | NS | -18.4% | 10.2% | -10.1% | ||
Services in the cervical cancer prevention | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 5.1 | 4.3 | 6.6 | NS | -14.7% | 53.4% | 30.8% | ||
School-based primary health care | |||||||||||||
Screening tests of children | n/d | 3061.4 | 2777.9 | 3193.6 | 2736.7 | 1708.5 | 1816.6 | NS | -37.6% | 6.3 | -33.6% | ||
Other screening tests of children@ | n/d | 1981.9 | 1869.1 | 1941.9 | 2153.0 | 888.0 | 1133.3 | NS | -58.8% | 27.6 | -47.4% | ||
Other documented preventive services | 7791.4 | 7855.7 | 7903.9 | 7929.0 | 7920.5 | 4878.5 | 5239.1 | 0.028 | -38.4% | 7.4 | -33.9% | ||
Children covered by group fluoride prophylaxis | 2468.2 | 2476.7 | 2386.7 | 2484.9 | 2471.7 | 2443.6 | 2161.0 | NS | -1.1 | -11.6% | -12.6% | ||