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  • Title: Illness reporting and demand for medical care in rural Burkina Faso.
    Author: Pokhrel S, De Allegri M, Gbangou A, Sauerborn R.
    Journal: Soc Sci Med; 2010 Jun; 70(11):1693-700. PubMed ID: 20299143.
    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.
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