Hefty fee for a healthy life: finding predictors by econometric comparison

Patients’ choice of healthcare providers and predictors of modern healthcare utilisation in Bangladesh: Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2016–2017 (BBS)

“…Chronic illness is described as a disease or illness persisting for the last 12 or more months. 24 In the analysis, chronic illness was a binary variable with 1 for suffering from chronic illness and 0 for not suffering from such illness. The time needed to reach the healthcare provider and the time patients needed to wait to be treated were measured in hours (1=less than 1 hour, 2=1–2 hours, 3=more than 2 hours).…”

“…We created two binary variables, namely, quality of the provider and low cost, from these responses. The responses were coded into binary with 1 for quality of the treatment and 0 for others, 24 and the variable was identified as ‘Quality of the provider’. Similarly, if the healthcare providers were selected for consultation because of low cost, such response patterns were coded as 1 and 0 for other responses.…”

“…The education level of the survey participants was coded as 1 for graduate or postgraduates and 0 for others. 24 The sex of the respondents was modified as a binary variable (1 for male and 0 for female). The marital statuses of the participants were coded as a dichotomous variable with 1 for married and 0 for others.…”