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Volume 8
Primary Healthcare: Open Access
ISSN: 2167-1079
Health Economics Congress 2018
September 13-14, 2018
September 13-14, 2018 | Zurich, Switzerland
4
th
World Congress on Health Economics,
Health Policy and Healthcare Management
Analysis of out-of-pocket expenditures in Mexico: A comparison of socio-economic characteristics
and geographic information among localities
Luis Claudio Rodríguez Ortiz
a
, Rocío García-Díaz
b
and
René Cabral
c
a
Stamford Health, USA
b
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
c
EGADE Business School, Mexico
T
he paper analyses the determinants of out-of-pocket health expenditures (OOPE) in Mexico. We compare socio-economic
characteristics and geographic information of the locality, such as distance between households and pharmacies, using
Geographical Information System (GIS) for different health services: social security, doctor’s offices adjacent to private
pharmacies, Minister of Health, and private doctor’s offices. We conduct a cross-sectional analysis using two different sources,
the 2012 National Survey of Mexican Household Income and Expenditures and the 2012 National Health and Nutrition
Survey. OOPE for medicines, outpatient and inpatient care services, and the probability of occurrence are estimated using
linear regression models where the Heckman selection procedure is used to correct for self-selection of health expenditures.
Biography
Luis C. Rodríguez Ortiz has over eight years of combined professional experience in asset management, corporate finance, credit research, and big data analytics.
He received his MBA in Finance from Tulane University in 2010 and a B.A. in Financial Management from Tecnológico de Monterrey in 2007. He currently serves as a
Project Manager at the Stamford Health System’s Analytics and Innovation department, a multidisciplinary team that has been instrumental in creating and developing a
centralized “data center” for the hospital while playing a key role in developing and executing a vast variety of process improvement strategies.
lrodrigu@tulane.eduLuis Claudio Rodríguez Ortiz et al., Primary Health Care 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1079-C6-032