Determinants of the Health Consultation Rate of Children and Adolescents

Authors

  • Cristián Aedo ILADES/Georgetown University

Keywords:

health consultations, child health, adolescent health, nutrition, PNAC, Chile

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the main socioeconomic determinants of the health consultation rate and the frequency of visits for a sample of children and adolescents from the cities of Santiago, Concepción and Valparaíso. The results obtained allow us to conclude that the most important explanatory variables of both decisions are the nutritional level of the minors, their age and their eligibility for the National Supplementary Feeding Program (PNAC). The policy recommendation arising from this finding is that one way to increase the consultation rate and the frequency of visits is by expanding the target population of the PNAC. This is because an increase in its coverage would have very positive effects on the health levels of children and on their nutritional level.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Becker, G. (1965). A theory of the allocation of time. Economic Journal, 75(299), 493–517. https://doi.org/10.2307/2228949

Behrman, J. (1990). The action of human resources and poverty on one another. What we have yet to learn (LSMS Working Paper N.º 74). The World Bank.

Johnson, N. L., & Kotz, S. (1972). Distributions in statistics: Continuous multivariate distributions. John Wiley and Sons.

MIDEPLAN. (1993). Programas sociales: Su impacto en los hogares chilenos.

MIDEPLAN. (1992). Población, educación, vivienda, salud, empleo y pobreza. CASEN 1990.

Torche, A. (1985). Una evaluación económica del Programa Nacional de Alimentación Complementaria (PNAC). Cuadernos de Economía, 22(66).

Vergara, P. (1990). Políticas hacia la extrema pobreza en Chile, 1973/1988. FLACSO.

Vial, I., & Camhi, R. (1991). Experiencias y dilemas en la focalización del Programa Nacional de Alimentación Complementaria [Documento mimeografiado]. Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo.

Downloads

Published

1995-04-30

How to Cite

Aedo, C. (1995). Determinants of the Health Consultation Rate of Children and Adolescents. Economic Analysis Review, 10(1), 53–70. Retrieved from https://www.rae-ear.org/index.php/rae/article/view/168

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (1995)

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 1995 Cristián Aedo

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Article usage

ViewsTimes this article's page was opened since the journal started recording statistics. One person can visit more than once.
106
DownloadsTimes the full text of this article (usually the PDF) was opened or downloaded.
129

All time, as recorded by the journal.

Last 2 years: 45 views, 78 downloads.

1.22 downloads per view (journal average 1.65).Downloads of the full text for every abstract view of this article, compared with the whole journal.

Explore the journal's metrics