Feasibility and usefulness of Gini coefficients of primary care visits as a measure of service inequality: preliminary findings from a cross-sectional study using region-wide elect... by Xin Yang, Jing Chai, Jing Cheng, DeBin Wang, XingRong Shen, Rong Liu, ManMan Lu, Jia Xu, Ningjing Yang, Guocheng Li

“…The study also produced topographic maps of the GPVs for nine selected diseases.Setting All primary healthcare facilities within the 105 townships or communities randomly selected from Anhui province, China.Participants All practising doctors working with and all patients presenting to the above sampled facilities during the 27-month study period.Results The overall rate of primary healthcare visits during the 27-month period was estimated at 147.78%, with intra-regional variation coefficients by all-cause and system-specific disease ranging from 49.02% to 68.96%, and women were more likely than men to seek primary healthcare. …”
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