Public vs. Private Health Care Services Demand in Italy

Daniele Fabbri and Chiara Monfardini

Giornale degli Economisti, 2003, vol. 62, issue 1, 93-123

Abstract: In this paper we use data coming from the new Italian Survey on Health Ageing and Wealth (SHAW) to analyse physician services utilization in Italy explicitly acknowledging the existence of two different classes of providers: public and private. We consider visits by a specialist physician as the measure of individual services utilization. In particular we assess the relative importance of variables like income, education, private insurance and supply characteristics as determinants of the utilization of such services, while controlling for individual health and need. We do that by estimating some alternative count data regression models of which we discuss the relative advantages and disadvantages and the entailed different interpretation of the results.

Keywords: health care demand; count data analysis; Italian National Health Service; inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C34 C35 C51 D12 I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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