@article{Hallman:94848,
      recid = {94848},
      author = {Hallman, Kelly K.},
      title = {CHILD HEALTH CARE DEMAND IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY:  UNCONDITIONAL ESTIMATES FROM THE PHILIPPINES},
      address = {1999-08},
      number = {583-2016-39675},
      series = {FCND DISCUSSION PAPER},
      pages = {101},
      year = {1999},
      abstract = {This study examines how quality, price, and access to  curative health care influence
use of modern public, modern  private, and traditional providers among 3,000 children  age
0-2 years in Cebu, Philippines. The analysis relies on  a series of household, community,
and health facility  surveys conducted in 33 rural and urban communities  during
1983B1986. The inclusion of data on potential health  care users and available providers
makes it possible to  investigate the impact of the health care environment on  demand.
Furthermore, since the study is not limited to only  those children whose mothers report
them as currently ill,  it avoids the possible biases caused by using a sample  comprised of
those who self-report morbidity.
Distance to  care is important for reducing demand, unlike user fees  that show no
significant effects on the use of modern  public or private services. The availability of  oral
rehydration therapy and child vaccines, as well as the  proportion of doctors to staff, are
important for  increasing the use of public care, while supplies of  intravenous diarrhea
treatments raise the demand for  private services. Nonmodern practitioners were used
more if  they had recently attended an nongovernment- or  government-sponsored health
training session. Parental  human capital and household income increase the utilization  of
private services. Children who are male and younger than  6 months of age are more
likely to be taken to private and  traditional providers, the two more expensive types  of
care.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/94848},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.94848},
}