Social Welfare and Demand for Health Care in the Urban Areas of Côte d’Ivoire

dc.contributor.authorArsène Kouadio
dc.contributor.authorVincent Monsan
dc.contributor.authorMamad ou Gbongue
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-16T11:32:00Z
dc.date.available2019-04-16T11:32:00Z
dc.date.issued2008-07-02
dc.descriptionRA 410.55 .C85 K68 2008en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyses the relationship between the demand for health care and that for health insurance by the population of Côte d’Ivoire. A Poisson model is used to estimate the demand for health care and a multinomial logit model for estimating the demand for insurance. The data on which the research was based were taken from a sample of 2,040 households that were interviewed as part of a survey on Recours aux soins et dépenses de santé or PSA 92 (Health care use and health expenses, or PSA 92), which was carried out in 1992 in Yopougon, a working class neighbourhood of Abidjan. The results show that the length of the illness appears to be the factor that triggers the use of modern health care. They also indicate that employment and age are important factors in making decisions about which insurance to take. Extending the data collection system to the rural population, or generalizing it to the whole population, and gaining a better definition of the variables “state of health”, “consulting a health service”, “behaviour of the insured person and of the insurance company vis-à-vis health services” should be envisaged to refine the research. All this will lead to a better grasp of the problems of moral hazard and adverse selection in Côte d’Ivoire’s health system as a result of the minimizing costs of the implementation of the expected Universal Health Insurance (AMU)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAERCen_US
dc.identifier.isbn9966-778-32-2
dc.identifier.urihttps://publication.aercafricalibrary.org/123456789/394
dc.publisherAERCen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesResearch paper;Research paper 181
dc.subjectHealth Insurance - Cote DÍvoireen_US
dc.subjectPublic Welfare - Cote dÏvoireen_US
dc.subjectUrban Health - Cote d:Ivoireen_US
dc.subjectDemand for health care,en_US
dc.subjectdemand for insurance,en_US
dc.titleSocial Welfare and Demand for Health Care in the Urban Areas of Côte d’Ivoireen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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