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dc.contributor.author | Okolo, CO | - |
dc.contributor.author | Reidpath, DD | - |
dc.contributor.author | Allotey, P | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-09-23T14:07:41Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2011-09-23T14:07:41Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 22(2): 663-682, May 2011 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1049-2089 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5853 | - |
dc.description | Copyright @ 2011 Johns Hopkins University Press | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The past decade has recorded remarkable interest in socioeconomic inequalities in health care. A multivariate analysis of the World Health Survey data for Burkina Faso was conducted using STATA. This included questions on household economic factors, perceived need, and access to health care. Poverty was defined using Principal Components Analysis. There was no significant difference in perceived need on the basis of poverty or gender. The less poor accessed health care more than the poor, but this difference was significant only among males. Respondents who lived in urban areas accessed health care more than those in rural areas, but this difference was significant only among females. We argue that health care financing arrangements affect self-reported need and access to health care. Even when they perceive need, the poor do not access care, probably because of cost, exacerbated by non-availability of readily accessible health care facilities. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press | en_US |
dc.subject | Burkina Faso | en_US |
dc.subject | Low-income country | en_US |
dc.subject | Poverty | en_US |
dc.subject | Health disparities | en_US |
dc.subject | Principal components analysis | en_US |
dc.subject | Perceived need | en_US |
dc.subject | Self-reported access | en_US |
dc.title | Socioeconomic inequalities in access to health care: Examining the case of Burkina Faso | en_US |
dc.type | Research Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2011.0039 | - |
Appears in Collections: | Community Health and Public Health Dept of Health Sciences Research Papers |
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