Socioeconomic status and access to care in a universal health care system: The case of acute myocardial infarction in Australia

Vijaya Sundararajan, Ou Yang and Jongsay Yong

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, vol. 215, issue C, 1-25

Abstract: This paper examines the role of socioeconomic status (SES) in affecting access to care and the survival of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients in Australia's universal health care system. We jointly model the probabilities of patients being admitted to a catheterisation-capable hospital, receiving invasive coronary angiography (ICA), and surviving 30 days post discharge as a recursive system of probit equations. We further investigate the role of capacity and whether the access gap between SES groups widens when capacity becomes limited.

Keywords: Socioeconomic status; Acute myocardial infarction; Coronary angiography; Health care access; Capacity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I14 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2023.08.022

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