Equity in health care utilization: Further tests based on hurdle models and Swedish micro data

Health Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 303-319

  Gerdtham, Ulf G ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Count data; Equity; Health care; Maximum likelihood estimations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OFFICE VISITS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE MEDICINE; SWEDEN; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0030748295     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199705)6:3<303::AID-HEC270>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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