Malaria-HIV co-infection: Adverse perinatal outcomes

dc.contributor.authorLaar, A.K.
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-28T16:12:00Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-16T12:21:25Z
dc.date.available2012-05-28T16:12:00Z
dc.date.available2017-10-16T12:21:25Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThis paper aims at examining the factors which influence the demand for health care services in selected Regions of Ghana. We use cross-sectional data covering 300 households in Ghana, and adopt a multinomial probit model with four health care options: self-care, drug stores, clinics, and hospitals with self-care as the base comparison group. Beside the relevant demographic, socio-economic, location, and facility-specific variables, we consider gender bias in households’ utilization of health care services. We find that married people tend to prefer care at drug stores, clinics, or hospitals to self-care. Also, urban dwellers tend to have easier access to drug stores compared to rural dwellers. Male-headed households tend to prefer self-care to any of the formal care options. We also find that, interestingly, households with more female children tend to use self-care compared to care at drug stores or hospitals while those with more adult males prefer to use drug stores during illness. This finding implies that policies aimed at promoting gender equity in health care need to consider not only the gender of the decision maker, but also the gender of individual household members.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGermany: VDM, 59p.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://197.255.68.203/handle/123456789/1699
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherVDMen_US
dc.subjectdemand for health careen_US
dc.subjectgenderen_US
dc.subjectgender equityen_US
dc.subjectself-careen_US
dc.subjectmultinomial probit modelen_US
dc.titleMalaria-HIV co-infection: Adverse perinatal outcomesen_US
dc.typeBooken_US

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