Health equity in an unequal country: the use of medical services in Chile

Table 7 Decomposition of concentration indices

	Mean		Concentration index			Change	Decomposition
	2003	2009	2003		2009	CI	Mean effect	Distribution effect	Result
General practitioner	0.1437	0.2589	−0.0265	(*)	0.0275	0.0540	0.4450	0.1214	Mean effect
Emergency room visits	0.0929	0.1025	−0.1034		−0.0978	0.0056	0.0933	0.0600	Mean effect
Specialist Doctors	0.2048	0.2217	0.1835		0.1583	−0.0253	0.0764	−0.3307	Distribution effect
Laboratory Exams	0.1330	0.2520	0.1362		0.1084	−0.0278	0.4722	−0.0589	Mean effect
X-ray and ultrasound	0.0589	0.0868	0.1809		0.1175	−0.0635	0.3214	−0.1974	Mean effect
Hospitalization days	0.5148	0.4685	−0.0710		−0.0785	0.0075	0.0899	0.0834	Non-defined

All Cis are statistically significant at 99%, except (*) that is significant at 95%.

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