Investigators from University College Report New Data on Social Science and Medicine (Multiple Inequity In Health Care: an Example From Brazil)

2019 JUN 04 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Current study results on Health and Medicine - Social Science and Medicine have been published. According to news reporting from London, United Kingdom, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “The paper develops and illustrates a new multivariate approach to analysing inequity in health care. We measure multiple inequity in health care relating to multiple equity-relevant variables including income, gender, ethnicity, rurality, insurance status and others and decompose the contribution of each variable to multiple inequity.”

Financial supporters for this research include Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York, Centre for Health Economics at the University of York, National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care North Thames at Bart’s Health NHS Trust (NIHR CLAHRC North Thames), National Institute for Health Research, Wellcome Trust.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from University College, “Our approach encompasses the standard bivariate approach as a special case in which there is only one equity-relevant variable, such as income. We illustrate through an application to physician visits in Brazil, using data from the Health and Health Care Supplement of the Brazilian National Household Sample Survey, comprising 391,868 individuals in the year 2008. We find that health insurance coverage and urban location both contribute more to multiple inequity than income.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “We hope this approach will help researchers and analysts shed light on the comparative size and importance of the many different inequities in health care of interest to decision makers, rather than focus narrowly on income-related inequity.”

For more information on this research see: Multiple Inequity In Health Care: an Example From Brazil. Social Science & Medicine, 2019;228():1-8. Social Science & Medicine can be contacted at: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Social Science & Medicine - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/social-science-and-medicine/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting E.C. Barbosa, University College, Dept. of Applied Health Research, 1-19 Torrington Pl, London WC1E 7HB, United Kingdom.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.02.034. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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