Health insurance and use of alternative medicine in Mexico

被引：13
作者：
van Gameren, Edwin [1 ]
机构：
[1] Colegio Mexico, Ctr Estudios Econ, Mexico City 10740, DF, Mexico
来源：
HEALTH POLICY | 2010年 / 98卷 / 01期
关键词：
Health insurance; Social security; Complementary therapies; Econometric models; Poverty; Mexico; UNITED-STATES; COMPLEMENTARY; SERVICES; COVERAGE; ADULTS; SYSTEM;
D O I：
10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.04.006
中图分类号：
R19 [保健组织与事业（卫生事业管理）];
学科分类号：
摘要：
Objectives I analyze the effect of coverage by health insurance on the use of alternative medicine such as folk healers and homeopaths in particular if it complements or substitutes conventional services Methods Panel data from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) is used to estimate bivariate probit models in order to explain the use of alternative medicine while allowing the determinant of interest access to health insurance to be an endogenous factor Results The findings indicate that households with insurance coverage less often use alternative medicine and that the effect is much stronger among poor than among rich households Conclusions Poor households substitute away from traditional medicine towards conventional medicine (C) 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd All rights reserved
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页数：8
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