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| Title: | Demand for Healthcare Services in Nigeria: A Multivariate Nested Logit Model |
| Authors: | Ichoku, H. Eme Leibbrandt, Murray |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Periodical: | African Development Review |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Issue: | 2-3 |
| Period: | December |
| Pages: | 396-424 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | public health Health and Nutrition Economics and Trade Development and Technology |
| External link: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8268.2003.00078.x/pdf |
| Abstract: | The object of this paper is to explain the health care decision process and the factors that influence medicare demand decisions of Nigerian households during a period of economic depression. It is based on a sample from a small-area analysis focusing on a relatively homogenous group. The objective of the study involved estimating the parameters of the demand for health care services in order to understand the nature of health care choices and the pathways to those choices that Nigerian households make under dire economic circumstances. These demand parameter estimates are considered valuable inputs into health care policy. To date, there is insufficient information on the vital factors that shape households' utilization of medicare services and the relative importance of health care alternatives available to them. This is the knowledge gap that this study hopes to fill. The nested logit model was found to be an appropriate functional form for the analysis. The data for the study were generated from a household survey conducted in the Nsukka local government area, Enugu State, southeastern Nigeria, in 2000. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |
