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Título: Equity in specialist waiting times by socioeconomic groups: Evidence from Spain
Autores/as: Abásolo, Ignacio
Negrín-Hernández, Miguel A. 
Pinilla, Jaime 
Palabras clave: Health-Care
Replacement Surgery
England
Access
Income, et al.
Fecha de publicación: 2014
Editor/a: 1618-7598
Publicación seriada: European Journal of Health Economics 
Resumen: In countries with publicly financed health care systems, waiting time-rather than price-is the rationing mechanism for access to health care services. The normative statement underlying such a rationing device is that patients should wait according to need and irrespective of socioeconomic status or other non-need characteristics. The aim of this paper is to test empirically that waiting times for publicly funded specialist care do not depend on patients' socioeconomic status. Waiting times for specialist care can vary according to the type of medical specialty, type of consultation (review or diagnosis) and the region where patients' reside. In order to take into account such variability, we use Bayesian random parameter models to explain waiting times for specialist care in terms of need and non-need variables. We find that individuals with lower education and income levels wait significantly more time than their counterparts.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/52369
ISSN: 1618-7598
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-013-0524-x
Fuente: European Journal of Health Economics[ISSN 1618-7598],v. 15, p. 323-334
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