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Ulf Gerdtham. Photo.

Ulf Gerdtham

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Ulf Gerdtham. Photo.

Equity in Swedish health care reconsidered : New results based on the finite mixture model

Author

  • Ulf G. Gerdtham
  • Pravin K. Trivedi

Summary, in English

This paper reconsiders the equity issue in Swedish health care utilization previously analysed by Gerdtham (Health Econ 1997; 6: 303-319) within the framework of the standard two-part model. Departing from the user/non-user distinction, we use the more flexible framework of the finite mixture model that distinguishes between frequent/infrequent users. Our results indicate that the support for the inequity hypothesis reported by Gerdtham is sensitive to model specification and the way standard errors of coefficients are estimated. The new framework offers an alternative perspective on the magnitude of the income-related difference in health care utilization.

Publishing year

2001-01-01

Language

English

Pages

565-572

Publication/Series

Health Economics

Volume

10

Issue

6

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Topic

  • Economics
  • Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy

Keywords

  • Count data
  • Equity
  • Finite mixture models
  • Health care
  • Latent class models

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1057-9230