caa a22 4500 445332069 CHVBK 20180317142740.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10198-010-0220-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10198-010-0220-z Inequalities in the use of health services between immigrants and the native population in Spain: what is driving the differences? [Elektronische Daten] [Dolores Jiménez-Rubio, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo] In Spain, a growing body of literature has drawn attention to analysing the differences in health and health resource utilisation of immigrants relative to the autochthonous population. The results of these studies generally find substantial variations in health-related patterns between both population groups. In this study, we use the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition technique to explore to what extent disparities in the probability of using medical care use can be attributed to differences in the determinants of use due to, e.g. a different demographic structure of the immigrant collective, rather than to a different effect of health care use determinants by nationality, holding all other factors equal. Our findings show that unexplained factors associated to immigrant status determine to a great extent disparities in the probability of using hospital, specialist and emergency services of immigrants relative to Spaniards, while individual characteristics, in particular self-reported health and chronic conditions, are much more important in explaining the differences in the probability of using general practitioner services between immigrants and Spaniards. Springer-Verlag, 2010 Inequalities nationallicence Health care utilisation nationallicence Immigrant population nationallicence Spanish National Health Survey nationallicence Oaxaca decomposition nationallicence Jiménez-Rubio Dolores Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences, Campus Universitario de Cartuja, University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain aut Hernández-Quevedo Cristina European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK aut The European Journal of Health Economics Springer-Verlag 12/1(2011-02-01), 17-28 1618-7598 12:1<17 2011 12 10198 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-010-0220-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-010-0220-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jiménez-Rubio Dolores Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences, Campus Universitario de Cartuja, University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hernández-Quevedo Cristina European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The European Journal of Health Economics Springer-Verlag 12/1(2011-02-01), 17-28 1618-7598 12:1<17 2011 12 10198 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer