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Unmet need for medical care
The name at the source «Self-reported unmet need for medical care by sex»
What this number is
It is the share of people who say they needed medical care and did not get it, because it was too expensive, the wait too long or too far away.
Unchanged from 2024. Above the European Union average.
2,5 %
identifier necessidades-medicas-nao-satisfeitas-2025
Published by Eurostat (tespm110)
What share of people say they needed a medical examination or treatment and did not get it because of the cost, a waiting list or the distance (self-reported unmet needs for medical care)?
Definition by Eurostat · Self-reported unmet need for medical care by sex
Excerpt
Self-reported unmet needs for medical care concern a person’s own assessment of whether he or she needed examination or treatment for a specific type of health care, but did not have it or did not seek it because of the following three reasons: ‘Financial reasons’, ‘Waiting list’ and ‘Too far to travel’. Medical care refers to individual healthcare services (medical examination or treatment excluding dental care) provided by or under direct supervision of medical doctors or equivalent professions according to national healthcare systems.read at the source on 24.09.2026
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Self-reported unmet need for medical care by sex — Percentage — Portugal — 2025: 2.5
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The comparisons
- Previous period
- 2,5source · Eurostat · 2024
- European Union
- 2,4source · Eurostat
What was checked
- Read at the source on
- 12.08.2026
- Re-read on
- 05.10.2026, matches the source · weekly comparison with the source
- Re-read on
- 28.09.2026, matches the source · weekly comparison with the source
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