This paper analyses immigrants' access to health care and utilisation of health care services in Germany. Thereby, it … is investigated if there is inequity in access to or in the utilisation of health care services due to a lack of language … skills or due to a lack of information about the health care system (approximated by years since migration)among first- and …

of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …-assessed health (SAH) are employed. Measures of medical care usage like doctor visits result in substantially lower concentration …

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …

of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …-assessed health (SAH) are employed. Measures of medical care usage like doctor visits result in substantially lower concentration …

This paper analyses immigrants' access to health care and utilisation of health care services in Germany. Thereby, it … is investigated if there is inequity in access to or in the utilisation of health care services due to a lack of language … skills or due to a lack of information about the health care system (approximated by years since migration)among first- and …

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …

authorized medical facilities on referral from a physician. While health resort stays are prescribed to recover from general … treatment at health spas. In Germany, the Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) covers both forms of therapy if administered in … symptoms of poor health and are preventive in character, medical rehabilitation implies recovering from a specific illness or …

authorized medical facilities on referral from a physician. While health resort stays are prescribed to recover from general … treatment at health spas. In Germany, the Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) covers both forms of therapy if administered in … symptoms of poor health and are preventive in character, medical rehabilitation implies recovering from a specific illness or …