Socio‐economic inequality in health service utilisation: Does accounting for seasonality in health‐seeking behaviour matter?

Published: Jul 2, 2019
Abstract
Seasonal variation exists in disease incidence. The variation could occur across the different regions in a country. This paper argues that using national household data that are not adjusted for seasonal and regional variations in disease incidence may not be directly suitable for assessing socio-economic inequality in annual outpatient service utilisation, including for cross-country comparison. In fact, annual health service utilisation may...
Paper Details
Title
Socio‐economic inequality in health service utilisation: Does accounting for seasonality in health‐seeking behaviour matter?
Published Date
Jul 2, 2019
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