Data on Health Insurance Described by Researchers at Department of Economics (Effect of having private health insurance on the use of health care…

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Data on Health Insurance Described by Researchers at Department of Economics (Effect of having private health insurance on the use of health care services: the case of Spain)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Fresh data on Health Insurance are presented in a new report. According to news reporting from Santander, Spain, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, "Several stakeholders have undertaken initiatives to propose solutions towards a more sustainable health system and Spain, as an example of a European country affected by austerity measures, is looking for ways to cut healthcare budgets. The aim of this paper is to study the effect of private health insurance on health care utilization using the latest micro-data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), the Spanish National Health Survey (SNHS) and the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC)."

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the Department of Economics, "We use matching techniques based on propensity score methods: single match, four matches, bias-adjustment and allowing for heteroskedasticity. The results demonstrate that people with a private health insurance, use the public health system less than individuals without double health insurance coverage."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "Our conclusions are useful when policy makers design public-private partnership policies."

For more information on this research see: Effect of having private health insurance on the use of health care services: the case of Spain. BMC Health Services Research, 2017;17():9-21. BMC Health Services Research can be contacted at: Biomed Central Ltd, 236 Grays Inn Rd, Floor 6, London WC1X 8HL, England. (BioMed Central - www.biomedcentral.com/; BMC Health Services Research - www.biomedcentral.com/bmchealthservres/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting D. Cantarero-Prieto, Univ Cantabria Spain, Fac Econ & Business, Dept. of Econ, Santander 39005, CP, Spain. Additional authors for this research include M. Pascual-Saez and N. Gonzalez-Prieto (see also Health Insurance).

Keywords for this news article include: Santander, Spain, Europe, Health Insurance, Department of Economics.