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In Chap. 5, we address the “health equity” issue related to the access to formal home care services across a set of European countries. We make use of the individual-level eligibility index developed in Chap. 4, and relate it to the most relevant “covariates”. The novelty of this chapter is that, by using the SHARE and the ELSA data, we can analyse the effect of adverse health shocks occurring during individuals’ lives as captured by a cumulative measure of health deterioration. The purpose of the analysis is to compare individuals with similar socio-economic backgrounds and similar health histories, by distinguishing those who may face the need for LTC as a result of a health shock: this is the “demand side” of the programme. However, depending on the LTC regulation to which these individuals are exposed, they will have different probabilities of access to care and different coverage, i.e., there is also a “supply side”. We describe how different LTC systems cope with the “cumulative health disadvantage”.
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Notes
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For a detailed description of the surveys, see Chap. 4.
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SHARE is coordinated by the Munich Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA).
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Brugiavini, A., Carrino, L., Orso, C.E., Pasini, G. (2017). Life-Course Health and Inequality. In: Vulnerability and Long-term Care in Europe. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68969-2_5
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