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- Title
The Role of Medical Care in Explaining the Link between Health and Economic Resources.
- Authors
Chung, Wankyo
- Abstract
Using data from the third wave of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS3), this analyses the relationship between economic resources and individual health controlling for other individual health risk factors. The study finds that economic resources measured by equivalized expenditure have a statistically significant positive effect individual health. Economic resources are also found to have a sizeable and significant on the utilization of medical care. After all, it is utilization of medical care that plays intermediary role in explaining the link between economic resources and health. Consistent results are found when both self-reported and nurse-assessed health indicators are used when both broad and more specific measures of medical care utilization are used.
- Subjects
INDONESIA; ECONOMICS; FAMILY life surveys; HEALTH; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
ASEAN Economic Bulletin, 2006, Vol 23, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
0217-4472
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1355/ae23-1d