This study attempts to identify the factors that determine the medical treatment seeking
behaviour during illness and the demand for health care services by employing a maximum …

Background Demand-side barriers are as important as supply factors in deterring patients
from obtaining treatment. Developing countries including Ethiopia have been focusing on …

The main aim of this study is to understand better the factors that influence the health care
demand decisions of Nigerian households. The achievement of this objective involves the …

The aim of this thesis is to contribute to our understanding of health care utilisation and its
determinants in developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. This is done by …

The object of this paper is to explain the healthcare decision process and the factors that
influence medicare demand decisions of Nigerian households during a period of economic …

We try to identify determinants of illness reporting, provider choice and resulting expenditure
with different econometric models using data from a representative household panel survey …

In middle-income Arab countries such as Egypt and Lebanon, income-associated equity in
health care remains an elusive policy objective in part due to a relatively high reliance on …

In the context of the national debate on the extension of health insurance to farming
households in Senegal, information on 504 households and 18 public primary health care …

Usage of health facilities in Ethiopia is among the lowest in the world; raising usage rates is
probably critical for improving health outcomes. The government has diagnosed the …

Health constitutes a sufficiently solid entrance to reduce poverty and promote economic
growth. Yet, in most African countries and particularly in Côte d'Ivoire, the populations' state …