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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Hauptverfasser: Pokhrel, Subhash (VerfasserIn) , De Allegri, Manuela (VerfasserIn) , Gbangou, Adijma (VerfasserIn) , Sauerborn, Rainer (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 19 February 2010
In: Social science & medicine
Year: 2010, Jahrgang: 70, Heft: 11, Pages: 1693-1700
ISSN:1873-5347
DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.02.002
Online-Zugang: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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Verfasserangaben:Subhash Pokhrel, Manuela De Allegri, Adijma Gbangou, Rainer Sauerborn
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Zusammenfassung: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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ISSN:1873-5347
DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.02.002