Illness reporting and demand for medical care in rural Burkina Faso
The issue of illness reporting in modelling demand for health care in low- and middle-income countries can be handled according to either of two conceptually-different constructs: (a) considering illness reporting behaviour as endogenous to demand; or (b) considering demand itself as the outcome of...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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19 February 2010
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Social science & medicine
Year: 2010, Volume: 70, Issue: 11, Pages: 1693-1700 |
| ISSN: | 1873-5347 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.02.002 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.02.002 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953610001383 
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| Author Notes: | Subhash Pokhrel, Manuela De Allegri, Adijma Gbangou, Rainer Sauerborn |
| Summary: | The issue of illness reporting in modelling demand for health care in low- and middle-income countries can be handled according to either of two conceptually-different constructs: (a) considering illness reporting behaviour as endogenous to demand; or (b) considering demand itself as the outcome of a sample selection phenomenon. In this paper, we take the second viewpoint and estimate the demand for medical care with an estimator that uses Heckman-type. Empirical estimates based on household survey data from rural Burkina Faso suggest that there are some implications of illness reporting behaviour for modelling the demand for medical care. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 04.05.2023 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1873-5347 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.02.002 |