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Health seeking behaviour and household health expenditures in Benin and Guinea: the equity implications of the Bamako Initiative

✍ Scribed by Agnes Soucat; Timothee Gandaho; Daniel Levy-Bruhl; Xavier de Bethune; Eusebe Alihonou; Christine Ortiz; Placide Gbedonou; Paul Adovohekpe; Ousmane Camara; Jean-Michel Ndiaye; Boubacar Dieng; Rudolf Knippenberg

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
411 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
0749-6753

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✦ Synopsis

Curative and preventive care utilization in Bamako Initiative health centres in Guinea and Benin increased signi®cantly. Service based data and household survey results are compared and interpreted to evaluate the equity aspects of the Bamako Initiative programmes in these settings. Improvements in the use of preventive services are shared by the richer and poorer groups of the population. Inequities are more apparent regarding curative care. An important part of the population is not using Bamako Initiative Health Centres for ®nancial reasons. However, the poor were found to use these Health Centres relatively more than richer socio-economic groups. Challenges of the future are identi®ed and recommendations made as to how to tackle the problem of true indigence. &1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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