期刊
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
卷 75, 期 4, 页码 595-603出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.12.018
关键词
Health-seeking behavior; Health insurance; Behavioral change; Moral hazard; Burkina Faso
资金
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [SFB 544]
In 2004, a community-based health insurance (CBI) scheme was introduced in Nouna district, Burkina Faso, with the primary objective of improving access to facility-based health services. In order to overcome self-selection issues in the analysis of the behavioral effects of insurance, we combine four waves of the Nouna Health District Household Survey into a panel data set, and use the randomized timing of insurance rollout to estimate the causal effect of insurance coverage on health-seeking behavior. While we find a generally positive association between CBI affiliation and treatment seeking, we cannot reject the null that the introduction of health insurance does not have any effect on treatment seeking in general, and utilization of facility-based professional care, in particular. Low levels of health care provider satisfaction, poor perceived quality of care by enrollees, and ambiguity in the coverage level of the CBI benefit package appear to have contributed to these weak results. Our findings imply that the basic notion of insurance mechanically increasing facility-based professional care is not necessarily true empirically, and likely contingent on a large number of contextual factors affecting health-seeking behavior within households and communities. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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