caa a22 4500 397520212 CHVBK 20180308164630.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199509 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/heapol/10.3.284 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/heapol/10.3.284 Increasing the utilization of cost-effective health services through changes in demand [Elektronische Daten] [ROBIN BARLOW, FRANÇOIS DIOP] Attaining efficiency in a health care system with a budget constraint involves increasing the utilization of the most cost-effective services. This can be achieved by adjustments to prices, cost curves, or demand curves. In this paper, the potential for demand curve adjustments is examined by selecting two apparently cost-effective services (prenatal care and childhood immunization against tuberculosis), and analyzing the factors explaining their utilization. Data from recent household surveys in Burkina Faso and Niger are used. A multivariate analysis of utilization employs income, price, and taste variables. Utilization is highly sensitive to the distance which must be travelled to the health facility, a price variable. Members of certain ethnic groups tend to use the services less, other things being equal. The importance of demand-side factors like ethnicity points to certain kinds of policy interventions like information, education and communication activities which could increase the utilization of cost-effective services. © 1995 Oxford University Press Overview nationallicence BARLOW ROBIN School of Public Health,University of Michigan, USA aut DIOP FRANÇOIS School of Public Health,University of Michigan USA aut Health Policy and Planning Oxford University Press 10/3(1995-09), 284-295 0268-1080 10:3<284 1995 10 heapol https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/10.3.284 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 other jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/10.3.284 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- BARLOW ROBIN School of Public Health,University of Michigan, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- DIOP FRANÇOIS School of Public Health,University of Michigan USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Policy and Planning Oxford University Press 10/3(1995-09), 284-295 0268-1080 10:3<284 1995 10 heapol Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford