Nghiên cứu về các yếu tố ảnh hưởng đến việc sử dụng trung tâm y tế xã tại tỉnh Long An

Nghiên cứu các yếu tố ảnh hưởng đến việc sử dụng trung tâm y tế xã tại tỉnh Long An, góp phần nâng cao chất lượng dịch vụ y tế cộng đồng.

2007

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Phí lưu trữ

30 Point

Mục lục chi tiết

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CERTIFICATION

ABSTRACT

1. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1. Problem statement

1.2. Research objectives

1.3. Research questions

1.4. Methodology

1.5. Hypothesis

1.6. Scope of the research

1.7. Thesis Structure

2. CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1. Definitions

2.2. Theory of consumer behavior

2.3. Theories of factors affecting health care demand

3. CHAPTER 3: AN OVERVIEW OF HEALTH CARE PROVIDER IN VIETNAM

4. CHAPTER 4: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, ESTIMATION AND RESULTS

5. CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF FIGURES

ACRONYMS

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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HCM INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS THE HAGUE VIETNAM THE NETHERLANDS VIETNAM-THE NETHERLANDS PROJECT FOR M.A ON DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DETERMINANTS OF COMMUNE HEALTH CENTER (CHC) USAGE IN LONG AN PROVINCE A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS BY HUYNH DANG BICH VY Academic Supervisor: DR. NGUYEN VAN PHUC BQ GIAO DVC VA 8AO -;-; ; . TRVdNG E>H KINH TE TP. ( ~c }f- HO CHI MINH CITY, AUGUST 2007 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Firstly, I would like to express my deep gratitude to all professors and teaching staff in Vietnam-Netherlands programme on Development Economics for their lectures, instructions and the best teaching conditions during my study period from 2004 to present. The author would like to give a special thanks to Dr. Nguyen Van Phuc, the author's supervisor, for his scientific instructions and his valuable comments on this study. In addition, the author owes special gratitude to Mr. Truong Dang Thuy and Mr. Luong Vinh Quoc Duy for their enthusiastic help and criticism. This research would have been completed difficultly were it not for the kind and warm welcome of individuals from over 100 households in Can Duoc and Can Giuoc district during the survey. Thanks are due to many friends that I could not fully list here for their strong supports of the survey and their invaluable encouragements and nice wishes. And last but not least, all my love is devoted to my parents and brother who always help and encourage me during my learning and doing this study. Again, the author is really grateful to all people for their help. Any errors in this research are my responsibility alone. TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com CERTIFICATION I certify that the substance of this thesis has not already been submitted for any degree and is not being current submitted for any other degree. I certify that to the best of my knowledge any help received in preparing this thesis, and all sources used, have been acknowledged in this thesis. HUYNH DANG BICH VY TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com ABSTRACT Many studies of the utilization of health care system have been done in different countries over the world. In most developing countries like Vietnam, people mainly live in rural area; hence rural health care sector plays an important role. One of health care providers is commune health center that provides basic health care. Therefore, this study's purpose is to investigate determinants of commune health center usage; specifically it aims at examining the effects of individual income. Binary logit model was used to find out the answers for the questions of what determinants of using health care services from CHC are and whether with higher income people tend to use more CHC services or not. The author has applied the method of multi-staged sampling to collect data in Can Duoc and Can Giuoc districts, Long An province. The object of this research is individuals aged 15 and older that are the adult population and have enough civil capacity to make their own decisions. The results show that income is a relatively important determinant of CHC -----cnoice -in.-can Duoc and-Catlviuo-c-districts:-Furthermore;-other-factors-such-as- socio-demography, severity of illness and characteristics of the CHC provider are significantly important. These results are useful to give several recommendations to improve the quality of CHC services in order to satisfy particular income group. TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION . 3 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW . THEORY OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR .THEORIES OF FACTORS AFFECTING HEALTH CARE DEMAND .SUGGESTED RESEARCH VARIABLES . 12 CHAPTER 3: AN OVERVIEW OF HEALTH CARE PROVIDER IN VIETNAM .BACKGROUND ON VIETNAMESE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM .COMMUNE HEALTH CENTER . 22 CHAPTER 4: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, ESTIMATION AND RESULS •••••.DATA COLLECTION METHODS .The main contents of the questionnaire . Socio-demographic characteristics .2 Individual and household income .3 The characteristics of the perceived illness . Attributes ofhealth care provider and the non-monetary cost .STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS OF COLLECTED DATA . 42 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS . 64 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com LIST OF TABLES TABLE 2.1: The expected signs ofdeterminants ofhealth care usage .1: Infrastructure in three levels ofpublic health care system in 2006 in Vietnam .2: The proportion of out-patient health service contacts of each level of income people at each type ofprovide .0: Appropriate sample size .1: The number and the percentage ofobservations for each type ofproviders .2: Basic socio-demographic characteristics ofthe respondents .3: Average income of respondent and average income per capita per month .4: Mean individual income offive groups .5 Choice ofprovider by income quintile .6: Results ofthe survey CHC andnon-CHC respondents in terms oflDAY .7: Results of the survey CHC and non-CHC respondents in terms ofRDAY.8: Availability ofdrugs in the CHC.9: Total expenditure for consultation and drugs .10: The number of observations that people have used specific health care provider .12: Logit regression results .13: The changes in the probability of using CHC provider if having change in ---- ---------ageCJrlevel-of-education;-given-otherfactors--;-;;-=;-.14: The changes in the probability ofCHC usage of male and female if age increases by one year, given other factors .15: The changes in the probability ofCHC usage of male and female if the ratio ofdistance increase by one unit, given other factors .16: The changes in the probability ofCHC usage ofmale and female if the user fee ofCHC is cheaper, given other factors .17: The changes in the probability of CHC usage if changing severity of illness, given other factors .18: The changes in the probability ofCHC usage as having change in income, given other factors .19: Descriptive statistics of variables .20: Correlations among independent variables . 58 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com LIST OF FIGURES FIGURE 2.1: The behavioral model .2: Choice ofa health care provider .1: Total expenditure on health (THE) as% ofGDP .2: Total expenditure on health in million VND for 1996-2005 .3: Inequality in the use ofhealth services .4: Proportion ofout-patient health care service visits by type ofprovider .5: Main reasons for choosing outpatient facility used . 25 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com ACRONYMS CHC Commune Health Center GSO General Statistics Office LHS Left Hand Side MOH Ministry of Health MTEF Medium-Term Expenditure Framework RHS Right Hand Side SD Standard Deviation UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund VDR Vietnam Development Report VLSS Vietnam Living Standards Survey VNHS Vietnam National Health Survey WB World Bank WHO World Health Organization TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION The introduction chapter consists of six parts. The problem statement is presented in section 1. The following parts such as research objectives, research questions, methodology, and hypothesis are in section 1. Research scope as well as several reasons for choosing Can Duoc and Can Giuoc districts as research places is revealed in section 1. The last section is thesis structure.1 Problem statement Health sector is one of main concerns of many countries in the world as well as in VietNam. During the period since Doi Moi (Renovation) to the present, the government has invested resources and implemented many reforms in this sector. The rural heath care system is strengthened as the government's priority because around 72.9% of 84,108 million Vietnamese people live in rural area (UNDP, 2006). It is organized at four levels: national, province, district, and commune (Tran Tuan, 2004). Together with private providers and self-medication, almost all communes have a commune health centre (CHC). According to Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H:-Son -(2U01i)~-CHC seems to play an-impoftantrole_in__ - providing basic health services to the poor in Viet Nam. In particular, CHC is responsible for primary curative care service in a community, especially in rural area. However, the role of the commune health center has declined. One of the reasons of this is that a large part of primary curative care service is shared with other providers. Another reason is that people tend to seek higher quality health care services because of an improvement of living standard. The CHC system only retains its dominant role in preventive care (Tran Tuan, 2004). This study investigates determinants of CHC usage and finds out whether CHC is normal or inferior goods, especially in two districts of Long An province, namely, Can Duoc and Can Giuoc. This kind of information would help decision makers develop 1 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com appropriate plan for CHCs. Since, suppliers could provide appropriate health care services and contribute to conduct an accessible and affordable health service to consumers. Therefore, this research concentrates on investigating determinants of commune health center usage in Can Duoc and Can Giuoc districts, Long An provmce.2 Research objectives General objective is to examine the factors affecting commune health center usage in Can Duoc and Can Giuoc districts, Long An province Specific objectives are to measure the effect of individual income on CHC usage and to propose appreciate plan for CHCs to satisfy the demand for health care services of people living in the two research places.3 Research questions A general question is: what are determinants of using health care services fromCHC? And the other is: Are individuals with higher income more likely to use health care service from CHC? 1.4 Methodology Descriptive methods are used to review the background conditions of Vietnamese health care system, especially health care information from survey in Long An province. Moreover, an econometric model is formulated to examine the relative effects of various determinants of CHC usage. In particular, the author applied binary logit model to find out answers for the above research questions.5 Hypothesis The study hypothesis is that there is a negative relationship between individual income and CHC usage in rural area. The higher income is, the higher demand for health care facilities with high quality such as public or private hospitals, private clinics is. As a result, demand for CHC usage will reduce. 2 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.6 Scope of the research Data for this research were collected from households in Can Duoc and Can Giuoc districts, belonging to Long An province, in March 2007. There are 154 observations collected from over 100 households in the author's survey. The author chose the two districts to be research place due to following reasons: Firstly, Can Duoc is the author's home town that motivates me to choose it in order to do this research. Furthermore, with the support of the author's friend who lives in Can Giuoc district, to familiar with the geography, living conditions and culture of local people made collection of data less difficult. Secondly, Can Giuoc and Can Duoc districts have the same conditions such as the number of communes that is 17 for each. In addition, the density in the two districts is also similar, that is 781 and 787 people per square kilometer, respectively. Finally, they are rather near to Ho Chi Minh city that have many modem health services. Respondents living in there can choose various health care providers that may lead to reduce in CHC usage. Therefore, to examine determinants ofCHC usage in Can Giuoc and Can Duoc districts is necessary.7 Thesis Structure The outline of this thesis is organized following: Cliapter r:Tntroauction.-Tlle problem statement is presented-to---expresstrre---- significant for investigating determinants of CHC usage and finds out the effect of income on the CHC usage of individuals in Can Duoc and Can Giuoc districts, Long An province. Chapter 2: Literature Review. This chapter includes definitions of CHC, theoretical background in terms of consumer behavior, theory and model of factors affecting health care demand. In addition, results of empirical studies also are presented in this chapter. Chapter 3: Overview of Health Care System in Vietnam. This chapter provides major information on rural health care system such as the gains as well as 3 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. In addition, infrastructure and reasons for choosing each level, especially the CHC usages are also contained. Chapter 4: Research Methodology, Estimation and Results.

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