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Determinants of household direct and indirect costs: an insight for health-seeking behaviour in Burkina Faso

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The objective of the study is to identify the determinants of household direct and indirect costs in the Nouna District, Burkina Faso. The data used were from a household survey conducted during 2000–2001. The multinominal logit models were applied to investigate the determinants of direct and indirect costs. The respondents who were sick in the rainy season and severity of illness significantly increased the probability of having high direct and indirect household costs. Acute illness occured in an adult was positively associated with magnitude of household indirect costs. Household economic status and utilization of western medical care played an important role in magnitude of direct cost. The information on determinants of household direct and indirect costs is necessary in order to get a complete picture of household costs for seeking health care and identification of vulnerable social groups and households.

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  1. CFA = Burkina Faso currency (1US$ = 772 CFA, June 2001).

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The study was supported by the collaborative research grant SFB 544 of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). The authors would like to thank the staffs of the Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna (CRSN) for their valuable support during data collection.

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  1. Centre for Population Health (CePH), Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Tin Tin Su

  2. Department of Health Care Management, University of Greifswald, Friedrich-Loeffler-Strasse 70, 17489, Greifswald, Germany

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Su, T.T., Flessa, S. Determinants of household direct and indirect costs: an insight for health-seeking behaviour in Burkina Faso. Eur J Health Econ 14, 75–84 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-011-0354-7

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