@incollection{2023:kunac:health_sta,
title = {Health status and access to the healthcare system of members of the Roma national minority in the Republic of Croatia},
year = {2023},
note = {The Roma are one of the 22 national minority groups in Croatia
representing 0.4 % of the total population. Although there is no
difference between the Roma and the general population in terms of
subjective assessments of general health, one of the challenges
addressed by the paper is that health institutions in Croatia do not
collect data on ethnicity. Therefore, there is a systematic lack of
data on Roma morbidity, healthcare use or discrimination in the
healthcare system on the basis of belonging to the Roma national
minority. An analysis of secondary data showed that the health of the
Roma in Croatia is strongly influenced by their living conditions,
nutrition, and poverty, due to which the life expectancy for the Roma
is significantly lower compared to the majority of the Croatian
population. The largest number of Roma people were hospitalized due to
respiratory diseases, mental and behavioral disorders, as well as
injuries, poisoning, and other consequences of external causes. The
largest number of Romani women were hospitalized due to pregnancy,
childbirth, and midwifery, as well as respiratory diseases, and mental
and behavioral disorders. The Roma in Croatia have experienced
discrimination in the field of healthcare in the last year from 6.8 %
to 10 % placing Croatia slightly above the average of EU countries
where Roma live.},
booktitle = {Equal Access to Healthcare in Socially Diverse Societies},
pages = {193--212},
edition = {},
author = {Kunac, Suzana and Racz, Aleksandar},
publisher = {Karl Alber},
address = {Baden-Baden},
series = {Angewandte Ethik},
volume = {8}
}