TY - JOUR
T1 - Determinants of household direct and indirect costs
T2 - an insight for health-seeking behaviour in Burkina Faso
AU - Su, Tin Tin
AU - Flessa, Steffen
N1 - Funding Information:
The study was supported by the collaborative research grant SFB 544 of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). The authors would like to thank the staffs of the Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna (CRSN) for their valuable support during data collection.
PY - 2013/2
Y1 - 2013/2
N2 - The objective of the study is to identify the determinants of household direct and indirect costs in the Nouna District, Burkina Faso. The data used were from a household survey conducted during 2000-2001. The multinominal logit models were applied to investigate the determinants of direct and indirect costs. The respondents who were sick in the rainy season and severity of illness significantly increased the probability of having high direct and indirect household costs. Acute illness occured in an adult was positively associated with magnitude of household indirect costs. Household economic status and utilization of western medical care played an important role in magnitude of direct cost. The information on determinants of household direct and indirect costs is necessary in order to get a complete picture of household costs for seeking health care and identification of vulnerable social groups and households.
AB - The objective of the study is to identify the determinants of household direct and indirect costs in the Nouna District, Burkina Faso. The data used were from a household survey conducted during 2000-2001. The multinominal logit models were applied to investigate the determinants of direct and indirect costs. The respondents who were sick in the rainy season and severity of illness significantly increased the probability of having high direct and indirect household costs. Acute illness occured in an adult was positively associated with magnitude of household indirect costs. Household economic status and utilization of western medical care played an important role in magnitude of direct cost. The information on determinants of household direct and indirect costs is necessary in order to get a complete picture of household costs for seeking health care and identification of vulnerable social groups and households.
KW - Burkina Faso
KW - Cost of illness
KW - Healthcare expenditure
KW - Healthcare-seeking behaviour
KW - Multinomial logit model
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U2 - 10.1007/s10198-011-0354-7
DO - 10.1007/s10198-011-0354-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 21953320
AN - SCOPUS:84872310967
SN - 1618-7598
VL - 14
SP - 75
EP - 84
JO - The European Journal of Health Economics
JF - The European Journal of Health Economics
IS - 1
ER -
