In both cases, the coefficients on the share of private sector service utilization show some attenuation, but the results are qualitatively unchanged and the statistical significance is robust.
Again, the coefficients on the share of private sector service utilization are reduced in magnitude, but the results are substantively and statistically unchanged.
These authors, however, provided no suggestions to increase public sector facilities utilization (24).
At present, the agricultural sector's utilization of water is not subjected to any licensing system nor is it controlled by a pricing system.
The energy utilization sector in Nigeria can be grouped into industry, transport, commercial, household, and agricultural sectors.
The present paper expands the empirical evidence on the interdependence between the two sectors in Germany, focussing on how the provision of services in one sector relates to utilization in the other.
If, by contrast, the maternal health services utilization sector variable takes higher (lower) values among poorer people, the concentration curve will lie above (below) the line of equality.
The reasons for these measures were the manifold problems in the public sector hampering the utilization of its services, such as low-quality care, absenteeism of staff and a dearth of physically accessible facilities [ 1].
At the same time, the Iranian health system is being criticized for inefficient resource allocation, providing services without cost-effectiveness considerations, failing to regulate the private sector and over-utilization of new technologies [ 9- 12].
In part, this can be attributed to weak incentives for private sector networks to report utilization statistics to government.
The procedure involves allocating per unit public subsidies, for example, expenditure per student for the education sector, according to individual utilization rates of public services [ 7].
