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Titre :	Illness reporting and demand for medical care in rural Burkina Faso. (2010)
Auteurs :	POKHREL (Subhash) : GBR. Brunel University. Health Economics Research Group. Uxbridge. ; Manuela DE ALLEGRI ; GBANGOU (Adijma) : BFA. Nouna Health Research Centre. ; Rainer SAUERBORN ; Heidelberg University. DEU
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Social science and medicine (vol. 70, n° 11, 2010)
Pagination :	1693-1700
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	Demande ; Milieu rural ; Soins ; Sélection ; Homme ; Afrique ; Soins médicaux
Résumé :	[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS HFCR0xI7. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. 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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