Access to mental health and addictions specialists reported by level of income (income quintile) (data source: Statistics Canada survey).
Individuals get the care they need, without inappropriate bias based on their social status or other personal characteristics such as age, gender, ethnicity or place of residence.
Additional Domain(s) :
Accessibility
Eddy van Doorslaer, Cristina Masseria and the OECD Health Equity Research Group Members. (May 2004) OECD HEALTH WORKING PAPER No. 14: INCOME-RELATED INEQUALITY IN THE USE OF MEDICAL CARE IN 21 OECD COUNTRIES: Selecting Indicators for the Quality of Cardiac Care at the Health Systems Level in OECD Countries. Retrieved on July 31, 2006 from:
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/14/0/31743034.pdf