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A N Herrin

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PubMed1986

A social and economic analysis of schistosomiasis: a conceptual framework and a research strategy.

This paper describes a broad conceptual framework for analyzing the social and economic aspects of schistosomiasis. In this framework, the household, in an attempt to improve its welfare, is assumed to make a variety of simultaneous decision based on a set of opportunities and constraints defined by its household resources and community environment, which are in turn influenced by public policies and programmes. The analytical gains from utilizing this broad framework in the study of the social and economic consequences of schistosomiasis, the transmission of the disease, and the demand for treatment from the perspective of more effective control of the disease are briefly noted. The paper also describes the research strategy being adopted by an ongoing research in the Philippines with attention to the intensive data requirements that the broad framework calls for.

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Household health care facility utilization in the Philippines.

This paper presents probit estimates of household utilization of health care facilities in the Philippines. Using household data from the 1987 National Health Survey and supply data from the Department of Health, separate probit equations are estimated for each of the four major types of facilities in the Philippines: Public hospitals, private hospitals, major rural health units and barangay (village) health stations. The probability that a household will utilize services from these facilities is estimated as a function of socioeconomic, demographic and supply variables. The results indicate substantial differences in utilization patterns by income class. Households in the highest income quartile are approximately twice as likely (0.451 versus 0.236) to utilize private hospital services vis-à-vis households in the lowest income quartile, ceteris paribus. The results also indicate substantial substitution between public and private services. An increase in the availability of private hospital beds significantly reduces the probability that a household will utilize government facilities.

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