d'Uva, Teresa Bago; Jones, Andrew M.; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
Measurement of inequity in health care delivery has focused on the extent to which health care utilisation is or is not …-invariant component. We also propose and compare a more conservative index of horizontal inequity to the conventional statistic. We find …-based methods lead to significantly higher estimates of horizontal inequity for most countries. This confirms that better estimation …