00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862388210 Buklod 20210305001809.0 m | | ta 210304s1986 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00039402997 ML dBAG rda eng ARTICLE-2452 Ching, Panfila author. Public provision and demand for health services a case study of Bicol Panfila Ching. 1986. pages 293-322 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier This paper is based on the author's Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the UP School of Economics in 1986. Philippine Review of Economics and Business (formerly The Philippine Review of Business and Economics) Includes bibliographical references (page 322) This study describes the distribution of health subsidies across income groups and the use of health facilities. The first part derives empirical results using a proposed methodology based on the Meerman procedure. The second employs various estimation procedures and provides econometric analyses of the factors behind the use of public facilities. The data set is culled from the 1978 Bicol Multipurpose Survey. The two parts of this study are seen to be actually related. The first part investigates how the utilization of facilities is distributed across income groups; the rationale for this view is that the distribution of benefits from health facilities is ultimately determined by the distribution of utilization or frequency of visits to the facilities. What determines this frequency is the concern of the second part. From the first part, one learns that income is not a barrier to access to public health care. Public facilities, in general, did not discriminate against the poor. The second part shows that costs-whether money or time- did not deter the use of health facilities. Families are found to be responsive to the relative money prices of facilities. While most of the facilities are complements, some are clearly substitutes, e.g., the hilot and puericulture center. Health planners would thus have to continue figuring out how public facilities can establish themselves effectively in a competitive environment. Public health Research. Health facilities Philippines Bicol Evaluation. Philippine Review of Economics and Business (formerly The Philippine Review of Business and Economics) Vol. XXIII, Nos. 3 & 4 (September & December 1986), p. 293-322. Full text access @ https://bit.ly/Publicprovisionanddemandforhealthservices FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-2452 Analytics