TY - JOUR
T1 - Health provider choice and implicit rationing in healthcare
T2 - Evidence from Mozambique
AU - Salvucci, Vincenzo
PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - An analysis of health provider choice together with a model of implicit rationing in healthcare is presented using Mozambique as a case study. We make use of the Mozambican Household Surveys on Living Conditions 2002/3 and 2008/9. Updated and sometimes contrasting results with respect to similar analyses on older Mozambican data are obtained. In particular, we find that the role of income is more important in 2002/3 and in 2008/9 than it was in 1996/7. In consequence, we further expand the analysis by studying how socioeconomic disparities among other factors influence implicit rationing in healthcare. When using the 2008/9 survey only, moderate evidence that some sort of implicit healthcare rationing is in place is found; that is, some people do not seek care because they foresee they will not be granted quality healthcare access or treatment.
AB - An analysis of health provider choice together with a model of implicit rationing in healthcare is presented using Mozambique as a case study. We make use of the Mozambican Household Surveys on Living Conditions 2002/3 and 2008/9. Updated and sometimes contrasting results with respect to similar analyses on older Mozambican data are obtained. In particular, we find that the role of income is more important in 2002/3 and in 2008/9 than it was in 1996/7. In consequence, we further expand the analysis by studying how socioeconomic disparities among other factors influence implicit rationing in healthcare. When using the 2008/9 survey only, moderate evidence that some sort of implicit healthcare rationing is in place is found; that is, some people do not seek care because they foresee they will not be granted quality healthcare access or treatment.
KW - healthcare demand
KW - Mozambique
KW - rationing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84899751318&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/0376835x.2014.887996
DO - 10.1080/0376835x.2014.887996
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84899751318
SN - 0376-835X
VL - 31
SP - 427
EP - 451
JO - Development Southern Africa
JF - Development Southern Africa
IS - 3
ER -