Tunisia: Do Doctors Treat Poorer Patients Differently? Our Study in Tunisia Found They Do – in Subtle Ways

People with lower income and less education get sick more often, have worse access to care, and don’t live as long. This is one of the most consistent findings in health research across the world.

But do doctors themselves amplify these inequalities?

As health economists interested in the behaviour of healthcare providers, we sought to explore an understudied driver of health inequalities in Tunisia: whether doctors treat patients from different socioeconomic backgrounds differently during a…