The Determinants of The Health Status in a Developing Country: results from the Colombian Case

Juan Gallego (), Manuel Ramirez and Carlos Sepulveda ()

Lecturas de Economía, 2005, issue 63, 111-135

Abstract: We find empirical evidence of the health determinants as a measure of health capital in a developing country after a deep reform of its health-care sector. we use the model of Grossman and take, besides individual and socioeconomic variables, institutional variables. Two surveys from 1997 and 2000, with a subjective (self-report) health status of the individuals, and information about health system affiliation type, were used. The estimation method is an order probit model. The results show an important connection of individual , institutional and socioeconomic variables with the health status. Although the access to medical care seems to strenght the inequities in health outcome, the purpose of the social security reform of affiliating the vulnerable population is met.

Keywords: Demand for health; health production, developing countries, probit estimations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J0 J23 J3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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