Brunel University, Health Economics Research Group, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, United Kingdom.
Soc Sci Med. 2010 Jun;70(11):1693-700. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.02.002. Epub 2010 Feb 19.
The issue of illness reporting in modelling demand for health care in low- and middle-income countries can be handled according to either of two conceptually-different constructs: (a) considering illness reporting behaviour as endogenous to demand; or (b) considering demand itself as the outcome of a sample selection phenomenon. In this paper, we take the second viewpoint and estimate the demand for medical care with an estimator that uses Heckman-type. Empirical estimates based on household survey data from rural Burkina Faso suggest that there are some implications of illness reporting behaviour for modelling the demand for medical care.
在中低收入国家的医疗保健需求建模中，疾病报告问题可以根据两种概念上不同的结构来处理：(a) 将疾病报告行为视为需求的内生因素；或(b) 将需求本身视为样本选择现象的结果。在本文中，我们采取第二种观点，并使用Heckman 型估计器来估计医疗保健需求。基于布基纳法索农村家庭调查数据的实证估计表明，疾病报告行为对医疗保健需求建模有一定的影响。
