Impact of health insurance on the use of oral health services in the Peruvian population 2015-2019.
Jorge Alfredo Herrera RuizNilthon Pisfil-BenitesDiego AzañedoAkram Hernández-VásquezPublished in: BMC oral health (2024)
Therefore, in the Peruvian context, health insurance affiliation was associated with greater use of OHS. The panel data used derives from a subsample of consecutive nationally representative samples, which may have led to a loss of representativeness. Furthermore, the data was collected between 2015 and 2019, prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and insurance conditions may have changed.