Household health care expenditure and health services utilization decisions in Honduras
| dc.contributor.advisor | Langworthy, Mark | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Scheu, Linda L. | |
| dc.creator | Scheu, Linda L. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-04-03T13:37:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-04-03T13:37:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278809 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study utilizes national household income and expenditure data from Honduras, collected by the Honduran Central Bank in 1998--99, to examine two distinct health issues. First a tobit censored regression model is estimated to identify the variables that affect monthly household expenditures on health. This analysis is then used to examine income elasticities for health goods. Secondly, a nested bivariate probit model is used to study the socio-economic and demographic variables that influence a Honduran household's decision to seek health services attention when a household member is acutely ill and, consequently, how they then choose between public and private health services. | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | The University of Arizona. | en_US |
| dc.rights | Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Economics, General. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Health Sciences, Public Health. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sociology, Individual and Family Studies. | en_US |
| dc.title | Household health care expenditure and health services utilization decisions in Honduras | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis-Reproduction (electronic) | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Arizona | en_US |
| thesis.degree.level | masters | en_US |
| dc.identifier.proquest | 1414235 | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Graduate College | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Agricultural and Resource Economics | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | M.S. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.bibrecord | .b44426471 | en_US |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-27T16:46:53Z | |
| html.description.abstract | This study utilizes national household income and expenditure data from Honduras, collected by the Honduran Central Bank in 1998--99, to examine two distinct health issues. First a tobit censored regression model is estimated to identify the variables that affect monthly household expenditures on health. This analysis is then used to examine income elasticities for health goods. Secondly, a nested bivariate probit model is used to study the socio-economic and demographic variables that influence a Honduran household's decision to seek health services attention when a household member is acutely ill and, consequently, how they then choose between public and private health services. |
