Wednesday 17 September 2008

126) Horizontal equity in the Portuguese Health System

(Ana Simões, Ana Paquete and Marília Araújo)
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The equity in the context of health is increasingly applicant as the public health systems based on this concept. In this study, the approach based on the concept of horizontal equity, checking the degree of equity in access to health care for individuals with equal need. The innovation here proposal was dealt with separately health care private and public. The analysis was based consultations of general practitioners (public sector), dentistry (private sector) and the specialty of cardiology (public / private).
The analysis, based on INS of 1998/99, was made by using the concepts of curves and indices of concentration in order to calculate the index of Le Grand. The results of this work have concluded that there is inequity in health Portuguese favouring higher income classes of the public sector and in private.
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