The behaviour towards malaria care - a multinomial logit approach

W. K. Asenso-Okyere, J. A. Dzator, I. Osei-Akoto

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Abstract

Attempts to estimate a disease specific demand function to study the determinants of utilisation of the services of a health care provider or treatment for malaria. Adapts a multinomial logit framework to look at facility characteristics and individual patient features on demand for malaria care in Ghana. Individual patient characteristics form a set of social indicators which can be used to group patients with respect to their choice of provider. Confirms the popular use of self-medication as a first choice of action. The choice of malaria care providers is influenced by facility price, travel time, waiting time, education, age, sex and quality of care in terms of drugs availability. As income increases, the odds are in favour of self-medication.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)167-186
Number of pages20
JournalSocial Indicators Research
Volume39
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1996

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