Factors affecting the choice of public or private health care facilities in Vietnam
International Journal of Development Research
Factors affecting the choice of public or private health care facilities in Vietnam
Received 08th February, 2020; Received in revised form 27th March, 2020; Accepted 14th April, 2020; Published online 30th May, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Nguyen Thi Thu Thuong and Nguyen Thi Thuy Van. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The study aims to find out factors affecting the choice of visiting public or private health care facilities in Vietnam using logistic regression. Cross-sectional data from Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS) conducted in 2016 are used for this study.The study finds that most of variables were statistically significant, including household whose heads were elderly; ethnicity; residence place; education of household heads; household wealth; health insurance participation status and region. The strongest influence on choosing public health facilities in this study was health insurance participation status.
