Search Results - subject:"equity in health care"

An examination of issues of health outcome and expenditure pattern of households based on household income and expenditure surveys- a case study of Botswana

Setshegetso, Naomi; Oageng, Itumeleng P.; Kahaka, Zibanani - In: Asian African journal of economics and econometrics 16 (2016) 1, pp. 13-24

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ETHNICITY AND EQUITY IN THE USE OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES IN THE SPANISH NATIONAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

Jiménez-Rubio, Dolores - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2007

An important recent change in the Spanish society is the increasing proportion of the population who are immigrants. Immigrants often face situations of social exclusion and disadvantage, circumstances that may affect their health status. Empirical evidence about differences in health status or...

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Unfair inequalities in health and health care

FLEURBAEY, Marc; SCHOKKAERT, Erik - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2007

health care can be integrated in an overal evaluation of social inequality. Keywords: equity in health care delivery … inequalities between socioeconomic groups. And in the literature on equity in health care delivery, it is quite reasonably taken … also consider the issue of equity in health care delivery. Let us assume that the health of individual i (i =1,...,n) is …

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Measuring change in health care equity using small-area administrative data – Evidence from the English NHS 2001–2008

Cookson, Richard; Laudicella, Mauro; Donni, Paolo Li - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 8, pp. 1514-1522

This study developed a method for measuring change in socio-economic equity in health care utilisation using small … in health care utilisation in the English NHS from 2001 to 2008, and if anything, there may have been a slight … in more deprived areas than elsewhere. We conclude that there was no substantial deterioration in socio-economic equity …

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Measuring horizontal inequity in health care using Belgian panel data

VAN OURTI, Tom - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 2002

We estimate the determinants of utilisation of physician and hospital services in Belgium using four different regression techniques. We apply a one- and two-part panel count data model, and a oneand two part cross-section count data model. We conclude that the two-part panel count data model is...

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