Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20582 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1316
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This study investigates equity in access to health care in Switzerland over time, using nationwide representative survey data from 1982, 1992, 1997 and 2002. Both simple quintile distributions and concentration indices are used to assess horizontal equity, i.e. the extent to which adults in equal need for medical care appear to have equal rates of medical care utilization. Looking at each of the four survey years separately the results indicate that by and large, there is little or no inequity in use except with respect to specialist visits which are clearly pro rich distributed as in most other OECD countries. We neither find much significant variation over time despite the fact that the share of health care has grown from close to 8% to more than 11% over this period and that a major reform of the health care system has taken place in 1996.
Subjects: 
health care utilization
inequality
JEL: 
I10
I12
D32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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