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100			_aChatterjee, Somnath , _935163
245			_aDecision on Institutional Choice in the Healthcare Sector: Micro-empirical Evidences from West Bengal (India)
300			_a177-191 p.
520			_aAn attempt has been made in this article to shed some light on the decisions of patients on their institutional choice in accessing healthcare services within micro empirical framework in the state of West Bengal, India. The determinants of such decisions are also recognized in this article. In conscientious, statistical methods are anticipated to frame the socio-economic and decisional variables, that influence the decision. Principal component analysis and ordered probit analysis have been deployed to scrutinize the same. It is observed that the economic status of the patients, their level of schooling, their income and some other decision variables have a strong influence on their access of healthcare institutions. The study has projected that intra-category and inter-category competition among available alternative service providers needs to be introduced and social entrepreneurship model in state-owned hospitals can be pioneered with due considerations.
653			_aHospitals
653			_ainstitutional choice
653			_adeterminant
653			_aordered probit
653			_aWest Bengal
700			_aLaha, Arindam _927209
773	0		_029022 _974522 _aSAGE PUBLICATIONS _dNEW DELHI SAGE PUBLICATIONS 2012 _o55510281 _tJOURNAL OF HEALTH MANAGEMENT _x0972-0634
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