Heterogeneous Effects of Demographic Factors on Healthcare Utilisation in Ghana

The purpose of this paper is to examine the heterogeneous effects demographic factors on healthcare utilisation. two-stage residual inclusion (2SRI) strategy was utilised in study address endogeneity problem. discovered significant differences utilisation services based age distribution and gender after decomposing data. Based disaggregated data, considerable use services. According subsample analysis, gender, education, obesity were variables that determined for working class, whereas locality (rural) elderly. Physical inactivity only variable influenced class elderly healthcare. For children, those from elderly, commonly by NHIS membership, self-assessed health, chronic illness type illness. Furthermore, found variations when analysis gender. children subsample, health females’ Working-class males’ but affected participation, physical inactivity. Finally, sickness diarrhoea how males used healthcare, inactivity, location suggests information be taken into account developing, planning, implementing policy increase