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Socioeconomic inequity in long-term care use in Europe

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  • Grace Armijos-Bravo

    (ECOTEC University, School of Economics and Business. Guayaquil-Ecuador)

Abstract

We investigate the determinants of the use of long-term care services provided at home as well as the degree of horizontal inequity that may exist in the use of this type of services for a sample of dependent individuals living in Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Italy and Spain, using data from 2006/2007. The results suggest that there is not an equitable distribution of use of formal home care and informal care across the selected countries. Pro-poor inequity is found for formal home care in the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden while Italy and Sweden shows a pro-rich distribution of use when analyzing nursing/personal home care exclusively. With respect to informal care no evidence of inequity was found for all the countries except Sweden. However, in the case of intensive informal care use pro-poor inequity was found in The Netherlands, Sweden and Italy.

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  • Grace Armijos-Bravo, 2019. "Socioeconomic inequity in long-term care use in Europe," Cuadernos de Economía - Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance, Asociación Cuadernos de Economía, vol. 42(118), pages 13-32, Enero.
    • Handle: RePEc:cud:journl:v:42:y:2019:i:118:p:13-32
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    1. Javier Lera & Marta Pascual-Sáez & David Cantarero-Prieto, 2020. "Socioeconomic Inequality in the Use of Long-Term Care among European Older Adults: An Empirical Approach Using the SHARE Survey," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(1), pages 1-14, December.

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    Keywords

    Inequity; Dependency; Long-term care;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination

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