Metadata Sub-indicator 3.8.1.1. Necesidad insatisfecha de atención médica
Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Target 3.8. Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.
Indicator 3.8.1. Coverage of essential health services
Sub-indicator 3.8.1.1. Unmet need for medical care
- European (sdg_03_60)
- National
Proportion of people aged 16 and over reporting unmet health care needs due to any of the following reasons: Financial reasons, waiting list and too far to travel
$$ PPNIAM_{16+}^{t}=\frac{PNIAM_{16+}^{t}}{P_{16+}^{t}} \cdot 100$$Where \( PNIAM _{16+}^{t}\): population aged 16 and over indicating unmet health care needs in year t and \(P_{16+}^{t}\): population aged 16 and over in year t
Percentage
Annual
Sex, Age, Autonomous Community, Nationality, Type of household, Income decile
Tier I
Yes
Life Conditions Survey (ISO code: 30453)
15/12/2021
WHO
Self-reported unmet needs relate to a person's own assessment of whether he needed a medical examination or treatment (excluding dental care), but he did not have it or did not seek it
- (1) Reasons: very expensive, far away to access or waiting list problems.
- (2) Other reasons: not having time, not knowing any good specialist, fear of the doctor or hospitals, medical examinations or treatment, waiting and seeing if the problem improves, other reasons.
- (*) Serial breakdown. Different question. The value of the subindicator 3.8.1.1 corresponds to the Reasons category