Ukraine Response — Regional Analysis — Access to Health Care — Annual Snapshot (2023)
From January to December 2023, IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) collected data on the Needs, Intentions, and Integration Challenges of refugees from Ukraine and Third-Country Nationals (TCNs) in 11 countries in the Ukraine Response: Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, and Slovakia. Over the course of 2023, a sample of a total of 28,712 respondents were surveyed on displacement patterns and experiences, including access and barriers to health care.
Key Findings
- One-third (34%) of respondents stayed with at least one person (including themselves) with a chronic condition.
- 16% of respondents had or accompanied someone with at least one disability in 2023.
- Across all 11 countries, 54% of the people interviewed faced one or more challenges to accessing health care.
- Top barriers included long waiting times (30%) and the language barrier (23%).
- Top health needs reported were health-care services (41%), medicines (29%) and psychological counselling (5%).
- 37% of households needed to pay for both health-care services and medicine.
- 42% of respondents needed more information on health-care services, 17% on psychological counselling and 12% on medicine.
DTM Global Survey 2023
The Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Global Survey 2023 is an annual stocktaking exercise which aims to present IOM DTM's operations and activities transparently. The Global Survey focuses on operations active from January 1 to December 31, 2023, with data collection occurring from February to April 2024.