This paper analyzes and compares socioeconomic inequalities in the use of healthcare services by the elderly in four South-American cities: Buenos Aires (Argentina), Santiago (Chile), Montevideo (Uruguay) and San Pablo (Brazil). We use data from SABE, a survey on Health, Well-being and Aging...

Este estudio investiga el impacto de factores de riesgo en el peso al nacer de los neonatos de la principal maternidad del Uruguay, el Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell, hospital público que atiende fundamentalmente población de bajos ingresos. La información proveniente del Sistema...

In Uruguay, as all over the world, the Caesarean section rate has been systematically increasing, and in 2003 it reached 23 per cent of the deliveries in public hospitals and 42 per cent in private hospitals. Considering deliveries registered in 2003 (23.474) by the Perinatal Information System...

This paper presents estimations of cost functions for a panel of firms from the Uruguayan commercial private banking sector, testing for economies of scale and scope and technical change between 1989 and 1993. Using a translog specification with fixed effects for bank operating costs, the paper...

Basing on the survey on Health, Well-being and Aging (SABE-PAHO/WHO, 2001) the determinants of health status for the cohort of 60 years old and over in Montevideo are estimated. Sixty seven percent of older adults perceived their health status as good. Estimates for the different indicators of...

In the present paper a translog cost function is estimated for uruguayan commercial banks in the period 1992-1997 using a panel data set of annual observations. Taking into account the multiproduct nature of the banking firm scope economies, complementarities between products, scale economies,...

En el documento analizamos las vinculaciones entre estado de salud, medido mediante la autopercepción de la ocurrencia de enfermedades, y situación socioeconómica de los individuos. A través de la utilización de las Encuestas Continuas de Hogares de Uruguay de 1991 a 2000, estimamos modelos...

Este trabajo se centra en el estudio de la estructura bancaria privada uruguaya entre 1989-1993. Dada la característica multiproductiva de la firma bancaria, se estima una función translogarítmica para costos operativos en base a un modelo panel con efectos fijos individuales, calculándose...

Using data from de Survey of Households Expenditures (1982-1983 and 1994-1995) of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística we estimates Engel Curves for a series of health expenditure. It is possible to affirm for 1994-1995 that the total expenditure in health care are a luxury good for people...