Expanding health insurance to increase health care utilization: Will it have different effects in rural vs. urban areas?

Health Policy

Volumn 100, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 273-281

  Erlyana, Erlyana ^a   Damrongplasit, Kannika Kampanya ^b   Melnick, Glenn ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Indonesia; Medical fee; Mixed logit model; Provider choice; Travel distance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL FEE; RURAL POPULATION; TRAVEL; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; INDONESIA; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955012056     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.11.008     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Investing in Indonesia's health: challenges and opportunities for future public spending. Health public expenditure review 2008, The World Bank.
2. Thabrany H. Hospital and health insurance 2001.
3. Pradhan M., Saadah F., Sparrow R. Did the health card program ensure access to medical care for the poor during Indonesia's economic crisis?. World Bank Economic Review 2007, 21:125-150.
4. MOHRI Indonesia health profile 2007.
5. Damrongplasit K., Melnick G.A. Early results from Thailand's 30 baht health reform: something to smile about. Health Affairs 2009, 28:w457-w466.
6. Coffey P.A., Di Giusto J. The effects of waiting time and waiting room environment on dental patients' anxiety. Australian Dental Journal 1983, 28:139-142.
7. Cauley S.D. The time price of medical care. The Review of Economics and Statistics 1987, 69:59-66.
8. Dor A., Gertler P., Van Der Gaag J. Non-price rationing and the choice of medical care providers in rural Cote d'Ivoire. Journal of Health Economics 1987, 6:291-304.
9. Gertler P., van der Gaag J. The willingness to pay for medical care: evidence from two developing countries 1990, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
10. Develay A., Sauerborn R., Diesfeld H.J. Utilization of health care in an African urban area: results from a household survey in Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso. Social Science & Medicine 1996, 43:1611-1619.
11. Gupta I., Dasgupta P. Demand for curative health care in rural India: choosing between private, public and no care discussion paper series no. 14/2000 Delhi 2000, Institute Of Economic Growth.
12. Sahn D.E., Younger S.D., Genicot G. The demand for health care services in rural Tanzania. Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics 2003, 65(no. 2):241-260.
13. Lindelow M. Health care demand in rural Mozambique: evidence from the 1996/97 household survey. FCND discussion paper no. 126 2002, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC.
14. Buor D. Gender and the utilisation of health services in the Ashanti Region, Ghana. Health Policy 2004, 69:375-388.
15. Mwabu G., Ainsworth M., Nyamete A. Quality of medical care and choice of medical treatment in Kenya: an empirical analysis. The Journal of Human Resources 1993, 28:838-862.
16. Akin J.S., Guilkey D.K., Denton E.H. Quality of services and demand for health care in Nigeria: a multinomial probit estimation. Social Science & Medicine 1995, 40:1527-1537.
17. Ellis RP, Mwabu G. The demand for outpatient medical care in rural Kenya. The Institute of Economic Development Working Papers Series dp-140, Boston University - Department of Economics, 2004.
18. Hidayat B., Thabrany H., Dong H., Sauerborn R. The effects of mandatory health insurance on equity in access to outpatient care in Indonesia. Health Policy Plan 2004, 19:322-335.
19. Lavy V., Germain J.M. Quality and cost on health care choice developing countries. Living standards measurement study working paper 105 1994, World Bank, Washington DC.
20. Bolduc D., Lacroix G., Muller C. The choice of medical providers in rural Benin: a comparison of discrete choice models. Journal of Health Economics 1996, 15:477-498.
21. Yip W., Orbeta A. The relative importance of price and quality in consumer choice of provider: the case of Egypt 1999.
22. Borah B.J. A mixed logit model of health care provider choice: analysis of NSS data for rural India. Journal of Health Economics 2006, 15:915-932.
23. Kermani M.S., Ghaderi H., Yousefi A. Demand for medical care in the urban areas of Iran: an empirical investigation. Journal of Health Economics 2008, 17:849-862.
24. Akin J.S., Griffin C.C., Guilkey D.K., Popkin B.M. The demand for primary health care services in the bicol region of the Philippines. Economic Development and Cultural Change 1986, 34:755-782.
25. Strauss J., Beegle K., Dwiyanto A., Herawati Y., Pattinasarany D., Satriawan E., Sikoki B., Sukamdi, Witoelar F. Indonesian living standards: before and after the financial crisis 2004, RAND Corporation.
26. Green W.H. Econometric analysis 2002, Prentice Hall.
27. Cameron A.C., Trivedi P.K. Microeconometrics: methods and applications 2005, Cambridge University Press.
28. Hausman J., McFadden D. Specification Tests for the Multinomial Logit Model. Econometrica 1984, 52:1219-1240.
29. Akpom C.A., Katz S., Densen P.M. Methods of classifying disability and severity of illness in ambulatory care patients. Medical Care 1973, 11:125-131.
30. Stewart A.L., Ware J.E., Brook R.H. Advances in the measurement of functional status: construction of aggregate indexes. Medical Care 1981, 19:473-488.
31. MOHRI Indonesia health profile 2004.
32. MOHRI Indonesia health profile 2008.