IInequity and inequality in preventive health care among older adults in Argentina in 2000

Gottingen y Merseburg

Seminario; Arnoldshain Seminar; 2011

International Society for Comparative Economic Studies

The goal of this study is to determine the inequity and inequality of preventive health care provided to older adults in Argentina and other South American countries. To address these issues, the following preventive care tests, Pap smears, mammograms and prostate preventive examinations, were analyzed among adults 60 year-old and older in Argentina in 1999-2000. Equations of utilization were estimated and traditional and extended concentration indices were computed from data from the Health, Wellbeing and Aging Survey in Buenos Aires and another South American cities in 1999-2000.