| Titre : | Measurement of horizontal inequity in health care utilization using European panel. |
| Titre original: | Mesure de l'inéquité horizontale dans le recours aux soins. Résultats issus d'un panel européen. |
| Auteurs : | T. BAGO D'UVA ; A.M. JONES ; E. VAN DOORSLAER ; Tinbergen Institute. Amsterdam. NLD |
| Type de document : | Document de travail |
| Mention d'édition : | réf. bibl. |
| Editeur : | Amsterdam : Tinbergen Institute, 2007 |
| Collection : | Tinbergen Institute discussion paper, num. 2007-059/3 |
| Format : | 28p., tabl. |
| Note générale : | Référence : réf. bibl. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
[BDSP5] CANDES > ENQUETE PANEL [BDSP5] CANDES > PANEL EUROPEEN [BDSP5] Géographie politique > Monde > Europe [BDSP5] Information & communication [NI] > Information > Nature information [NI] > Donnée statistique [BDSP5] Information & communication [NI] > Information > Nature information [NI] > Etude > Etude comparée [BDSP5] Information sanitaire > Besoin santé [BDSP5] Pratique médicale > Visite [BDSP5] Sciences économiques > Concept économique > Revenu [BDSP5] Système soins > Accès soins [BDSP5] Système soins > Accès soins > Inégalité devant soins [BDSP5] Système soins > Offre soins |
| Résumé : | Measurement of inequity in health care delivery has focused on the extent to which health care utilization is or is not distributed according to need, irrespective of income. Studies using cross-sectional data have proposed various ways of measuring and standardizing for need, but inevitably much of the inter-individual variation in needs remains unobserved in cross-sections. This paper exploits panel data methods to improve the measurement by including the time-invariant part of unobserved heterogeneity into the need-standardization procedure. Using latent class hurdle models for GP and specialist visits estimated on 8 annual waves of the European Community Household Panel we compute indices of horizontal equity that partition total income-related variation in use into a need- and a non-need related part, not only for the observed but also for the unobserved but time-invariant component. We also propose and compare a more conservative index of horizontal inequity to the conventional statistic. We find that many of the cross-country comparative results appear fairly robust to the panel data test, although the panel based methods lead to higher estimates of horizontal inequity for most countries. This confirms that better estimation and control for need often reveals more pro-rich distributions of utilization. |
| En ligne : | http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1004704 |
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