Demand for Health Care Services in Bure Town

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1999-06

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A.A.U

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This study attempted to identify the determinants of seeking treatment during illness and the demand for health care services among different providers in Bure Town. The factors that are expected to have an influential impact were categorized as individual and/or household specific variables 'and choice specific variables . The data used to estimate' the effects of identified variables on the specified models were collected though a field survey on 400 households of the residents in Bure Town between February 16th to March 6th , 1999. A systematic random sampling method was designed and used for purposes of data collection in the assumption of homogeneity in the population. The estimated empirical model results showed that individual and/or household specific variables such as sex of the patient, severity of illness, monthly income of the household and household size and the choice specific variable, distance to reach the nearest health facility, were found to have a significant effect on whether or not treatment was sought, but not on the choice of provider of health care services. On the other hand, age of the patient sex of the household head and education level of the patient from the individual and/or household specific variables and quality variables, medical cost of treatment per visit and waiting time for treatment from the choice specific category were found to have their own strong influence on the choice of providers of health care services with unexpected result that waiting time for treatment played in the choice of public facilities and the medical cost of treatment per visit played in the choice of private facilities which warrant us to perform fisher research in this area. The policy implication of such findings is discussed.

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Bure Town, Health Care

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