25 research outputs found
Reporting Heterogeneity in Self-Assessed Health Among Elderly Europeans: The Impact of Mental and Physical Health Status
Measurement of Horizontal Inequity in Health Care Utilisation Using European Panel Data
Are Bad Health and Pain Making Us Grumpy? An Empirical Evaluation of Reporting Heterogeneity in Rating Health System Responsiveness
Behavioral Differences in Violence: The Case of Intra-Group Differences of Paramilitaries and Guerrillas in Colombia
Inequity in healthcare use among older people after 2008: The case of Southern European Countries
Despite the sizeable cuts in public healthcare spending, part of the austerity measures recently undertaken in Southern European countries, little attention has been devoted to monitoring distributional aspects of healthcare usage. This study aims at measuring socioeconomic inequities in primary and secondary healthcare experienced some time after the crisis onset in Italy, Spain and Portugal. The analysis, based on data drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), focuses on older people, who generally face significantly higher healthcare needs, and whose health appeared to have worsened in the aftermath of the crisis. The Horizontal Inequity indexes reveal remarkable socioeconomic inequities in older people’s access to secondary healthcare in all three countries. In Portugal, the one country facing most severe healthcare budget cuts and where user charges apply also to GP visits, even access to primary care exhibits a significant pro-rich concentration. If reducing inequities in older people’s access to healthcare remains a policy objective, austerity measures maybe pulling the Olive belt countries further way
from achieving it