Analysis of Health Care Utilization in Côte d'Ivoire
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Date
2020-04-27
Authors
Cisse, Alimatou
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AERC
Abstract
Health constitutes a sufficiently solid entrance to reduce poverty and promote economic
growth. Yet, in most African countries and particularly in Côte d’Ivoire, the populations’
state of health has seen a real deterioration over the last decade. This study seeks to explain
this decline by determining the explanatory factors of recourse to health care providers.
To this end, the multinomial logit model is used. The theoretical basis for this analysis
is the maximization of a utility function to produce health. The data to test the study’s
hypotheses came from the survey of the National Institute of Statistics, entitled Social
Dimension of Structural Adjustment, carried out in April 1993. The results show that the
education level of the household head, the household’s income, the price of medication,
and the time to reach the health care provider (as a proxy for the distance to a health care
provider) determine the choice for a specific health care provider. The level of education
and the income positively influence this choice, while the cost of medication and the
time to provider (time to reach the health provider) negatively influence the choice of
health care provider.