Inequidades socioeconómicas en el uso de servicios sanitarios del adulto mayor montevideano

Ana Balsa, Daniel Ferres, Maximo Rossi () and Patricia Triunfo
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Ana Balsa: University of Miami
Daniel Ferres: Universidad de Montevideo
Patricia Triunfo: Universidad de la República

Estudios Económicos, 2009, vol. 24, issue 1, pages 35-88

Abstract: This study uses data from the 1999-2000 SABE survey to analyze socioeconomic inequities in healthcare access, utilization, and quality, for a sample of elderly individuals from Montevideo, Uruguay. We find horizontal inequity favoring the rich in the quality of access to medical visits (lower time spent travelling to the office and waiting in the office), in the probability of medical visits in the past 4 and 12 months, and in the use of preventive services (mamographies, pap scans, and prostate exams). The instrumental variables analysis suggests that inequities are probably underestimated when endogeneity is not taken into consideration.

Keywords: healthcare inequities; concentration curves; elderly individuals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I18 I19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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Working Paper: Inequidades socioeconómicas en el uso de servicios sanitarios del adulto mayor montevideano (2007)
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