Determinants of household health expenditure on western institutional health care

Abstract We try to identify determinants of illness reporting, provider choice and resulting expenditure with different econometric models using data from a representative household panel survey of 800 households in Nouna health district, Burkina Faso, during 2000–2001. The factors “being an adult”, “married”, “illness occurred in rainy season” and “severe illness” significantly increased the magnitude of health expenditure. Compared to malaria, individuals spent more on other infectious diseases, injury and the other disease category. In contrast, people were less likely to spend on chronic illness. An individual who belonged to a household headed by a female, a literate household head and with a higher household expenditure had a significantly positive association with the magnitude of expenditure. Findings from this study can be used for policy implication to improve health system performance in Burkina Faso through enhancing health care utilization..

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Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2006

Erschienen:

2006

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:7

Enthalten in:

The European journal of health economics - 7(2006), 3 vom: Sept., Seite 195-203

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Su, Tin Tin [VerfasserIn]
Pokhrel, Subhash [VerfasserIn]
Gbangou, Adjima [VerfasserIn]
Flessa, Steffen [VerfasserIn]

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44.05$jGesundheitsökonomie

44.10$jGesundheitswesen: Allgemeines

Themen:

Burkina Faso
Developing countries
Health expenditure
Utilization

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© Springer Medizin Verlag 2006

doi:

10.1007/s10198-006-0354-1

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OLC2052289291