- Title
- Government doctor absenteeism and its effects on consumer demand in rural north India
- Creator
- Iles, Richard
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/187670
- Identifier
- vital:17111
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3858
- Identifier
- ISSN:1057-9230
- Abstract
- Government doctor absenteeism from their public posts is a sizable problem across developing economies. The consumer demand estimation for outpatient fever treatment presented in this paper investigates the interrelationship between government doctor absenteeism and the large informal healthcare sector. Using a counterfactual framework, this paper estimates treatment effect of eliminating government doctor absenteeism. The effects are measured by changes to the market share of government Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) providers and resulting own‐price elasticities of demand for government MBBS providers and unqualified providers. Modelling incorporates patients expected health outcomes by provider via the use of a qualitative measure of word‐of‐mouth recommendations. Results indicate that eliminating government MBBS provider absenteeism in North India would increase utilisation of government outpatient fever treatments from 18% to 50%.
- Publisher
- Wiley Subscription Services
- Relation
- Health Economics Vol. 28, no. 4 (2019), p. 475-491
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright Wiley
- Subject
- Absenteeism; Analysis; Consumer demand; Counterfactual; Demand; Economic models; Elasticity of demand; Health aspects; Health status; India; Market shares; Modelling; Mouth; Outpatient treatment; Physicians; Price elasticity; Rural communities; Surgery; Worker absenteeism; 3801 Applied economics; 4407 Policy and adminstration
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