{"id":80178,"date":"2025-08-20T12:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/80178\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:59:07","slug":"3-6-experience-unmet-needs-for-medical-care-in-2024-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/80178\/","title":{"rendered":"3.6% experience unmet needs for medical care in 2024 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2024, 3.6% of people aged 16 years or older in the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a> who needed a medical examination or treatment reported that they were unable to receive it due to financial reasons, long waiting lists or distance from the medical providers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The highest share of people with unmet medical needs was reported in Greece (21.9%), followed by Finland (12.4%) and Estonia (11.2%). By contrast, the lowest shares were recorded in Cyprus (0.1%), Malta (0.5%) and Czechia (0.6%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/7722a92e-6342-a38f-3558-03feeebb20bc\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Unmet needs for medical examination due to financial reasons, long waiting list or distance, 2024, % of people aged 16 and older in need of medical examination. Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/7722a92e-6342-a38f-3558-03feeebb20bc\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/87f98953-a38a-44bf-ae0b-44e40a5c9004?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hlth_silc_08b<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">People <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:At-risk-of-poverty_rate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at risk of poverty<\/a> were more affected: 6.0% of them reported unmet medical needs, compared with 3.2% of those not at risk. The biggest differences between the two groups were observed in Greece (12.7 <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Percentage_point\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">percentage points<\/a>\u00a0(pp)), Romania (10.7 pp) and Latvia (9.9 pp).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, 3.6% of people aged 16 years or older in the EU who needed a medical examination&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[4535,102,2960,40893,4537,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-80178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-data-driven-news","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-hlth","12":"tag-population-and-social-conditions","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}