Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/299488 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-01533
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
The present paper outlines measures of disparity in healthcare access and health outcomes, drawing from the standardized metrics introduced in one related study (Bancalari et al., 2023). Beveridge countries seem to be less unequal than Bismarckian countries. Yet, there is no strong pattern in inequalities across our taxonomy, indicating certain unobserved variables of the health system might wield more influence over health and health care disparities than the overarching features defining our health system taxonomy. Finally, it will be analyzed how differences in healthcare use and health outcomes within countries are related to whether individuals benefit from either the contributory or the non-contributory subsystems and assess main factors explaining such differences by means of Oaxaca decompositions.
Subjects: 
Health Insurance, Public and Private
Health and Inequality
Health and Economic Development
JEL: 
I13
I14
I15
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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