Objective To quantify the impact of community-based health insurance (CBI) on utilization of health care services in rural Burkina Faso.Methods Propensity score matching was used to minimise the observed baseline differences in the characteristics of insured and uninsured groups such that the...

The issue of illness reporting in modelling demand for health care in low- and middle-income countries can be handled according to either of two conceptually-different constructs: (a) considering illness reporting behaviour as endogenous to demand; or (b) considering demand itself as the outcome...

Household surveys from the developing world consistently record a generally low level of illness reporting, but the evidence that substantial differences exist in illness reporting between income groups is scanty. In contrast, a huge gap in illness reporting exists between rich and poor...

Rationale: The vaccination status is often regarded as a proxy of investment in child health and a majority of analysis has examined the differences in vaccination status across different socio-economic groups. However, vaccination status does not reflect absolute investment; rather it measures...