IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/xpe/journl/v2y2018i3p73-83.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Acceso a la sanidad pública ecuatoriana: la influencia del aseguramiento

Author

Listed:
  • Grace Armijos Bravo

Abstract

The present study investigates whether the lackof insurance hinders theaccess to public health services in Ecuador, even though the uninsured are covered by the Ministry of Public Health. Likewise, it seeks to identify if there are other factors that threaten the equity of access to the health system. In this line, we employa cross-sectional analysis using logistic regression models with data from the National Survey of Health, Reproductive Health and Nutrition 2012, applying Andersen's theoretical model of demand for health services. The results show that there is a negative relationship between having no health insurance and the probability of using ambulatory care and hospitalization services. Moreover, need factors show a strong association with the use of these services which is desirablewithina public health system.

Suggested Citation

  • Grace Armijos Bravo, 2018. "Acceso a la sanidad pública ecuatoriana: la influencia del aseguramiento," X-pedientes_Economicos, X-pedientes Económicos, vol. 2(3), pages 73-83.
    • Handle: RePEc:xpe:journl:v:2:y:2018:i:3:p:73-83
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ojs.supercias.gob.ec/index.php/X-pedientes_Economicos/article/view/21/19.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:xpe:journl:v:2:y:2018:i:3:p:73-83. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Jose Guerra Cedillo (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.