Measuring Access and Inequality of Access to Health Care: a Policy-Oriented Decomposition

Antonio Abatemarco, Massimo Aria (), Sergio Beraldo and Michela Collaro ()
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Massimo Aria: Università di Napoli Federico II
Michela Collaro: Università di Napoli Federico II

CSEF Working Papers from Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy

Abstract: We propose an approach for the measurement of health care inequalities inspired by the ideal of equal universal access. The approach assesses the chances of access to health treatments of appropriate quality, for any given realization of socially relevant characteristics an individual may have. It allows to assess supply-side (cost-specific) and demand-side (resource-specific) determinants of health care inequality. An empirical exercise using Italian data shows that the methodology can be employed to improve the design of policies addressing health care inequalities.

Keywords: health care; equality of opportunity; factor-decomposition; health policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I14 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-02-03
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