Determinants of health care demand in the Philippines - lessons from recent studies
| dc.contributor.advisor | Solon, Orville Jose C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Caurez, Beatrice Nathalie L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sambajon, Dana Eilyn O. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-29T00:56:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-07-29T00:56:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-01-10 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Understanding healthcare demand allows policymakers to gain useful information for improving people's health through improved access to health facilities. There have been numerous studies on healthcare demand but there has not been a comprehensive review and compilation of their findings and methodologies, especially since they produce conflicting results. This paper is mainly focused on two things, analyzing the existing studies and literature about healthcare demand in the Philippines and combining lessons from these past studies to come up with a latest model that will aid in understanding the healthcare demand in the country. Building on previous studies, we specified 12 outcome categories using a multinomial logit model. These outcomes are a combination of the health status of individuals (sick and not sick) and the 5 types of health facilities visited, if any. Due to the wide gap in PhilHealth accreditation between hospitals and public health facilities, this study separated hospitals (public and private) from health facilities (public and private). Furthermore, this study’s model included those who are sick but chose not to visit any healthcare facility since most of the previous healthcare studies reviewed usually only included those who visited a facility to determine demand. The majority of our variables of interest (costs, severity of illness, reasons for visiting) have the same relationships with healthcare demand regardless of the individual’s health status. The results for the costs and reasons for visiting variables revealed insignificant effects on general healthcare demand, which matches Akin et al’s [1986] findings. However, this is contrary to the results of Ae Kim et al [2014], who found the cost of healthcare to be significant in healthcare utilization or demand. On the other hand, it was observed that there were varying representations for the severity of illness variable, which lead to differences in the results of previous studies. This study used categories of illnesses to represent the severity of illness and it was observed to have a positive correlation with sick individuals’ healthcare demand. Meanwhile, insurance and wealth variables exhibit notable differences in both not sick and sick individuals. Different trends among respondents coming from different wealth indexes were revealed. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://selib.upd.edu.ph/etdir/handle/123456789/79 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | healthcare demand | |
| dc.subject | health facilities | |
| dc.subject | healthcare | |
| dc.title | Determinants of health care demand in the Philippines - lessons from recent studies | |
| dc.type | Thesis |