Explaining the Gender Gap in Waiting Times for Scheduled Surgery in the Portuguese National Health Service

• Autori principali: Joana Cima (Autore), Paulo Guimarães (Autore), Álvaro Almeida (Autore)
• Natura: Libro
• Pubblicazione: Karger Publishers, 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Soggetti: article
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Objective: This paper evaluates the gender gap in waiting times for scheduled surgery, using information on 2.6 million surgical episodes in Portuguese National Health Service hospitals covering the period from 2011 to 2015. Methodology: We estimated the gross gender gap, i.e., the differential betw...