WAITING TIMES AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS. EVIDENCE FROM NORWAY

作者: Oddvar Kaarboe , Fredrik Carlsen

DOI: 10.1002/HEC.2904

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摘要: We investigate whether socioeconomic status, measured by income and education, affects waiting time when controls for severity hospital-specific conditions are included. also examine which aspects of the hospital supply (attachment to local hospital, traveling time, or choice hospital) matter most unequal treatment different groups. The study uses administrative data from all elective inpatient outpatient stays in somatic hospitals Norway. main results that we find very little indication discrimination with regard education both controlled for. This result holds men women. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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