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dc.contributor.authorOdwee, Jonathan J.A.O.
dc.contributor.authorOkurut, Francis Nathan
dc.contributor.authorAdebua, Asaf
dc.coverage.spatialUgandaen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-04T12:11:46Z
dc.date.available2013-06-04T12:11:46Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.identifier.citationOdwee, Jonathan J.A.O., Francis Nathan Okurut and Asaf Adebua (2006) The determinants of health care demand in Uganda: the case study of Lira District, Northern Uganda. AERC research paper 155, Nairobi : AERCen_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/2666
dc.description.abstractThe study investigated the price and non-price factors that affect health care demand in rural Uganda using household data from Lira district in northern Uganda, which is the poorest region. The government had introduced the user-fee scheme as a strategy for supplementing government budgets to improve health care delivery systems. The results suggested that the demand for government heath care services was negatively and significantly influenced by the user-fees and drug unavailability. A simulation analysis suggested that an increase in medical charges (user-fees) leads to a fall in demand for government health facilities but increases the demand for both private health facilities and self-medication. Controlling for drugs availability, the demand for government health facilities falls when drugs are not available while demand for private health facilities rises. The policy implication is that government should be able to put resources from things like debt relief to stocking the drugs in public health facilities while the internally generated tax revenues could be utilized to provide free health services especially to the poor. In the long run, the policy option of a social health insurance scheme may be explored.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherAfrican Economic Research Consortiumen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAERC research paper;155
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en_GB
dc.subjectGovernanceen_GB
dc.subjectHealthen_GB
dc.subjectPovertyen_GB
dc.titleThe determinants of health care demand in Uganda: the case study of Lira District, Northern Ugandaen_GB
dc.typeSeries paper (non-IDS)en_GB
dc.rights.holderAfrican Economic Research Consortiumen_GB
dc.identifier.koha177054


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