Eva Kotlebová, Faculty of Economic Informatics, University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovak Republic

pages: 34 – 46

Abstract

Problems with access to the health care can be regarded as an indicator of poverty, because one of its leading causes is the lack of financial resources. The paper deals with estimating the proportion of the population of the Slovak Republic that cannot afford medical treatment mainly due to financial but also, for other reasons which are closely related to the population´s financial situation. The analysis is based on data from the EHIS 2014 sample survey, monitoring the situation from the recipients´ perspective. In addition to estimating the proportion of the Slovak population without access to one of the forms of health care, some factors determining the degree of inaccessibility to health care are analysed in the paper. In order to make the estimates more accurate, the data from the EU SILC sample survey was also used which can be regarded as a source of a priori information thus allowing us to apply the Bayesian methods.