Hospitalization admission rates for low-income subjects with full health insurance coverage in France

摘要

Background: Complementary Universal Health insurance (CMUC) providing free access to health care has been available in France, since 2000 for people with an annual income 1 for all of the 22 major diagnostic categories, including psychiatry, toxicology and alcohol (3.7), HIV (3.3), infectious diseases other than HIV (1.9), burns (2.6), trauma (1.7) and female genital tract tumours (1.6) but not breast tumours (0.8). Hospitalizations for investigations such as endoscopies were also more frequent, as well as stays of <48 h for radiotherapy (1.6), chemotherapy (1.5) and dialysis (2.2). Conclusions: In this low-income population with free access to health care, hospitalization and hospital mortality rates were higher for many diseases that are known targets for prevention and screening actions.