Does Health Insurance Ownership Determine Access and Frequency of Hospitalization? Evidence from the Two-part Poisson Model

This paper examined the effect of health insurance ownership on hospitalization within the context of Malaysia. The study utilized the data from Malaysia National Health and Morbidity Survey III (2006) and 14,234 respondents were selected for this purpose. Malaysia provides new evidence from an emer...

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Main Authors: Shamzaeffa Samsudin, Arpah Abu-Bakar, Angappan Regupathi, Syed Mohamed Aljunid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EconJournals 2016-10-01
Series:International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues
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Online Access:https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ijefi/issue/32000/353020?publisher=http-www-cag-edu-tr-ilhan-ozturk