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

Table 8 Decomposition of Horizontal inequity (HI) Indices

	Mean		Horizontal inequity index			Change	Decomposition
	2003	2009	2003		2009	HI	Mean effect	Distribution effect	Result
General practitioner	0.1437	0.2589	−0.0273	(*)	0.0465	0.0738	0.0372	0.1110	Distribution effect
Emergency room visits	0.0929	0.1025	−0.0968		−0.0737	0.0231	−0.0076	0.0155	Distribution effect
Specialist Doctors	0.2048	0.2217	0.1784		0.1824	0.0041	0.0151	0.0191	Non-defined
Laboratory Exams	0.1330	0.2520	0.1128		0.1170	0.0042	0.1047	0.1089	Non-defined
X-ray and ultrasound	0.0589	0.0868	0.1703		0.1317	−0.0386	0.0624	0.0238	Mean effect
Hospitalization days	0.5148	0.4685	−0.0789		−0.0564	−0.0225	−0.0078	−0.0303	Distribution effect

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

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