The objective of this study consists in quantifying in money terms the potential reduction in usage of public health … care outlets associated to the tenure of double (public plus private) insurance. In order to address the problem, a … probabilistic model for visits to physicians is specified and estimated using data from the Catalonian Health Survey. Also, a model …

This paper studies the mechanism for the equity of payments for using the Colombian health system, defined as the … payment system are studied, as well as a particular case of a homogeneous population. Health services are grouped together …

This document analyzes the access to health services for the population belonging to the contributive and subsidized … regimes in the Colombian Caribbean region. Models of discreet selection are constructed - simple logit and Heckman probit - to … gain insight about the determinants for the use of health services because of both preventive and curative reasons. Among …

and utilisation of health care. Due to the difficulty to measure directly the demand of these services, the empirical …