Regional Differences in Rehabilitation Participation Among People With Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Abstract
People do not always have equal access to the rehabilitation services they need in the different regions of Finland. Access to rehabilitation services is affected by several issues. In this research, we studied regional differences in rehabilitation participation by comparing individual hospital districts. The focus was on the rehabilitation services organised by the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela). We were interested in how individual-level and area-level factors explained the rehabilitation participation in 2018. As data, we used the national registers maintained by Kela. We focused on mental and behavioural disorders. As methods, we used descriptive analysis and the logistic regression model. According to the results, several differences occurred in rehabilitation participation between individual regions. Even after taking into account the individual-level and area-level factors, the areas of high and low participation remained almost the same. We found no clear explanation in the register data for these differences. In the future, it is important to analyse the causes of identified regional differences using different research methods.
Authors
Sari Miettinen, Hanna Rinne, Jutta Pulkki, Pekka Heino, Leena Poikkeus
Additional Information
- Peer-Reviewed: yes.
- Open Access: no.
- Cite as: Miettinen, S., Rinne, H., Pulkki, J., Heino, P., & Poikkeus, L. (2023). Alueelliset erot Kelan kuntoutukseen osallistumisessa mielenterveyden ja käyttäytymisen häiriöissä. Kuntoutus, 46(2), 5–20. https://doi.org/10.37451/kuntoutus.130986
