Trends in horizontal inequity in access to public health care services by immigrant condition in Spain (2006-2017).

The results obtained here may serve, firstly, to prevent alarm about negative discrimination of economic immigrants in their access to public health services, even after the implementation of the Royal Decree RD Law 16/2012. Conversely, our results suggest that the horizontal inequity in access to specialist care that was found to be detrimental to economic immigrants in 2006-07, disappeared in global terms in 2011-12 and also by continent of origin in 2016-17.