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

Ana Balsa, Daniel Ferres, Maximo Rossi and Patricia Triunfo ()

Estudios Económicos, 2009, vol. 24, issue 1, 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
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://estudioseconomicos.colmex.mx/index.php/economicos/article/view/129/131 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:emx:esteco:v:24:y:2009:i:1:p:35-88

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Estudios Económicos from El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Económicos Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ximena Varela ().