Expanding health insurance to increase health care utilization: will it have different effects in rural vs. urban areas?

Objectives: This study investigates the importance of medical fee and distance to health care provider on individual's decision to seek care in developing countries.

Methods: The estimation method used a mixed logit model applied to data from the third wave of the Indonesian family life survey (2000). The key variables of interest include medical fee and distance to different types of health care provider and individual characteristic variables.