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Progressivity of health care financing : estimation and statistical inference

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  • Jan Klavus

    (STAKES, National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, Finland)

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This paper examines the vertical distribution of health care financing in Finland. The empirical analysis is based on a new approach that allows the estimation of inequality indices from micro-level data, and testing for the statistical significance of differences in the distributions. Estimates of standard errors were computed for the Gini coefficient of gross income and for concentration and progressivity indices of various health care financing sources. The results suggest that overall health care financing in Finland in the early 1990s was distributed progressively: poorer households financed health care by a smaller proportion of their gross income than richer households. However; the level of progressivity of various financing sources differed, and in most cases the differences were sufficiently large to rank the various financing components according to their contribution to overall progressivity.

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  • Jan Klavus, 1998. "Progressivity of health care financing : estimation and statistical inference," Finnish Economic Papers, Finnish Economic Association, vol. 11(2), pages 86-95, Autumn.
    • Handle: RePEc:fep:journl:v:11:y:1998:i:2:p:86-95
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    • I19 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Other

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