Gender bias in the Chilean public health system: Do we all wait the same?

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2002, Chile introduced a major health reform, designed to level out inequities in healthcare coverage, access and opportunities. In particular, the opportunity guarantees ensure a maximum time to receive the appropriate diagnosis and treatment, and thus, gender bias should not be observed.

Objective

To explore the existence of differences in the timeliness of treatment between women and men under the Chilean public health insurance system. We controlled by other observable variables, including age, insurance holder status, provider complexity and health district.

Methods

We used an individual level database that includes all interactions for the diseases covered under the national plan from 2014 to 2019. We excluded from the analysis the diseases affecti

SUBMITTER: Mondschein S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7515657 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature