Factors Associated with Utilization of Primary and Specialist Healthcare
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Article Factors Associated with Utilization of Primary and Specialist Healthcare Services by Elderly Cardiovascular Patients in the Republic of Serbia: A Cross-Sectional Study from the National Health Survey 2013 Andrija Grustam 1,2,* , Aleksandra Jovic Vranes 2,3, Ivan Soldatovic 4, Predrag Stojicic 5,6 and Zorana Jovanovic Andersen 7,8 1 Contract Research Organization for Medical Devices & Services, 1204 Geneva, Switzerland 2 School of Public Health and Health Management, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; aleksandra.jovic-vranes@med.bg.ac.rs 3 Institute of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia 4 Institute of Medical Statistics and Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; ivan.soldatovic@med.bg.ac.rs 5 The Rippel Foundation, Morristown, NJ 07960, USA; predrag.stojicic@gmail.com 6 ReThink Health, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 7 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark; zorana.andersen@sund.ku.dk 8 Nykøbing F Hospital, Centre for Epidemiological Research, 4800 Nykøbing F, Denmark * Correspondence: andrija.grustam@mail.harvard.edu Received: 23 February 2020; Accepted: 6 April 2020; Published: 10 April 2020 Abstract: The European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) is run every 5 years to examine how people experience and rank their health, how they care about their health, and to what extent they use the healthcare services. We identified the sub-population of special interest, i.e., cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients older than 65 years, in this cross-sectional study from the Serbian national survey of population health (2568 persons from a total of 15,999 subjects surveyed).
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