Illness reporting and demand for medical care in rural Burkina Faso

• Verfasst von: Pokhrel, Subhash [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: De Allegri, Manuela [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Gbangou, Adijma [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Sauerborn, Rainer [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Illness reporting and demand for medical care in rural Burkina Faso
• Verf.angabe: Subhash Pokhrel, Manuela De Allegri, Adijma Gbangou, Rainer Sauerborn
• E-Jahr: 2010
• Jahr: 19 February 2010
• Umfang: 8 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 04.05.2023
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Social science & medicine
• Ort Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science, 1967
• Jahr Quelle: 2010
• Band/Heft Quelle: 70(2010), 11 vom: Feb., Seite 1693-1700
• ISSN Quelle: 1873-5347
• DOI: doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.02.002
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Burkina Faso
• Sach-SW: Demand
• Sach-SW: Health care
• Sach-SW: Heckman
• Sach-SW: Rural
• Sach-SW: Sample selection
• K10plus-PPN: 184460568X

Abstract

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.