作者
Aida Isabel Tavares, Inês Marques
发表日期
2021/2
期刊
The European journal of health economics
卷号
22
期号
1
页码范围
141-153
出版商
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
简介
The Portuguese health system has the peculiar characteristic of being a Beveridge–Bismarck type aiming at universal coverage. On top of the national health system coverage, there is a second coverage provided to some professionals, plus a third layer of coverage that can be acquired by taking out voluntary private health insurance. The aim of this work is to ascertain whether people benefiting from supplemental multi-layer health coverage (on top of the existing National Health System) have more consultations, either with general practitioners or with specialists, and enjoy better health status. We used data from the National Health Survey from 2014 to estimate a recursive system of ordered probits. The main results confirm that multi-layer health coverage is correlated with the use of more specialist consultations, but not with more GP consultations. It is also correlated with better health status. These …
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