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Demand for Health Care in Kenya: The Effects of Information about Quality

Demand for Health Care in Kenya: The Effects of Information about Quality

Moses K. Muriithi, Germano Mwabu
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 9
ISBN13: 9781466643291|ISBN10: 1466643293|EISBN13: 9781466643307
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4329-1.ch007
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Muriithi, Moses K., and Germano Mwabu. "Demand for Health Care in Kenya: The Effects of Information about Quality." Econometric Methods for Analyzing Economic Development, edited by Peter V. Schaeffer and Eugene Kouassi, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 102-110. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4329-1.ch007

APA

Muriithi, M. K. & Mwabu, G. (2014). Demand for Health Care in Kenya: The Effects of Information about Quality. In P. Schaeffer & E. Kouassi (Eds.), Econometric Methods for Analyzing Economic Development (pp. 102-110). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4329-1.ch007

Chicago

Muriithi, Moses K., and Germano Mwabu. "Demand for Health Care in Kenya: The Effects of Information about Quality." In Econometric Methods for Analyzing Economic Development, edited by Peter V. Schaeffer and Eugene Kouassi, 102-110. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4329-1.ch007

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Abstract

Although studies on health care demand have previously been conducted in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa, it has hitherto not been shown how health seeking behavior conditional on illness is affected by information on health care quality and by quality variation conditional on that information. This study develops and tests the hypothesis that the information available on service quality at a health facility significantly affects demand for health care, and therefore, parameter estimates that ignore information available to patients about service quality might be biased. The authors highlight the need for public provision of such information. They also draw attention to a potential limitation of demand analysis in the design and implementation of health care financing policies.

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