The 2024 Deloitte Health Care Consumer survey reveals women are inattentive towards their health in the United States, resulting in major complications which leads them to chronic health problems. Read out the report analysis to know more.

Unlike before, when women didn’t give much attention to their health, nowadays women understand the need to focus on their health. Medical science has also been developing and understanding women’s physiology better. This has helped the medical fraternity to come up with innovative solutions for addressing women’s health issues in order to ease their lives.

Although women’s focus on their health has increased from several years ago, yet they are not doing enough. Battling a world where hustle culture reigns supreme, women continue to put their health on the backburner, and end up in situations where things have gotten far.

Despite being a developed country, the United States is witnessing women not giving enough consideration to their health.

According to McKinsey and company, healthcare profit pools in the US shall grow at 7% CAGR i.e., from $583 billion in 2022 to $819 billion in 2027.

Does this mean that the US healthcare landscape is somewhere lagging in providing proper healthcare to women? This new Deloitte report answers the question.  

Deloitte’s Report Looks at the US Healthcare

A new survey conducted by Deloitte has revealed certain factors about US healthcare with regard to women. It indicates towards three issues that could hinder the progress of the healthcare landscape in aiding females to have longer and healthier lives.

The hesitancy of US healthcare system being slow towards meeting the proper concerns and needs of women has been there. And now Deloitte has come up with research that unveils the limiting factors of the health care services usage of females. It also mentions aspects of tackling it down.

The survey has been taken out by Deloitte Center for Health Solutions that says women are more likely (35 percent), as compared to men, to skip/delay medical care over a 12-month period, leaving their conditions untreated for a longer period of time which later on results on compounding the costs sustained at the individual, organizational as well as societal levels.

Survey Analysis

The survey was conducted in February 2024 where it collected nationally representative sample that included around 2,000 US consumers for how the states might get high-quality health care for everyone irrespective of the gender.

The ‘2024 Deloitte Health Care Consumer Survey’ which is the 12^th consumer survey of the center from 2008, has found a total of 3 design flaws in the health care system of the US that shows formidable hurdles in getting optimal care for the people, disproportionately affecting women for that matter.

What The Report Says?

Deloitte has also conducted an actuarial analysis besides the survey of US consumers. It analyzed the medical claims data, intending to isolate health conditions which are unique in nature to men/women or more predominant to them.

Concluding with the analysis, it says women need 9.9 percent on an average for more health care services in comparison to men even after excluding expenses that are related to maternity health care, reasoning to numerous biological differences or disease prevalence e.g., autoimmune disorders and Alzheimer’s disease.

The survey also highlights that there is a significant gender disparity regarding the health care services’ usage. It mentions 50 percent of women and 37 percent of men have reported to skip or delay health care services in a 12-month period. However, the health care service that has been missed most frequently was acute illnesses treatment like flu or a viral infection i.e., 38 percent for women and 37 percent for men.

Conclusion

The survey says these women go through exacerbation of chronic illnesses by dodging or delaying routine checkups. They don’t comply with the prescribed medications that eventually results in the deterioration of health conditions, leading them to an escalation in the health issues’ severity and the associated costs of treatment, both.

In conclusion, the healthcare service sector needs a call to action, so that, women get to understand how important their health conditions are and they should be taking precautions and early treatments for even a small change in their body.