ArticleHealth policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2010
Health insurance and use of alternative medicine in Mexico.
Article in Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- A Complete Review of Mexican Plants with Teratogenic Effects.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Language Use and Generation Status are Associated with Chronic Pain Differences in Mexican Americans.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2022Article
- Selection of private or public hospital care: examining the care-seeking behaviour of patients with private health insurance.BMC health services research · 2020Article
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- Substitutes or complements? Diagnosis and treatment with non-conventional and conventional medicine.International journal of health policy and management · 2015Article
- Safety and effectiveness of mail order pharmacy use in diabetes.The American journal of managed care · 2013Observational
- The comparative effectiveness of mail order pharmacy use vs. local pharmacy use on LDL-C control in new statin users.Journal of general internal medicine · 2011Article
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Abstract
objectivesI analyze the effect of coverage by health insurance on the use of alternative medicine such as folk healers and homeopaths, in particular if it complements or substitutes conventional services.
methodsPanel data from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) is used to estimate bivariate probit models in order to explain the use of alternative medicine while allowing the determinant of interest, access to health insurance, to be an endogenous factor.
resultsThe findings indicate that households with insurance coverage less often use alternative medicine, and that the effect is much stronger among poor than among rich households.
conclusionsPoor households substitute away from traditional medicine towards conventional medicine.
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