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This paper investigates the impact of household cooking fuel choice on household healthcare expenditure as well as the socioeconomic and demographic factors that influence household healthcare expenditure. We employed the Tobit regression technique and data from the sixth and seventh rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey conducted in 2012/13 and 2016/17 respectively. The results indicate that in 2012/13, relative to households using wood as cooking fuel, households using charcoal and liquefied petroleum gas are 54.40 and 115.09 percentage points less likely to spend on healthcare services. However, the figure reduced to 28.15 and 103.25 percentage points in 2016/17 attributable possibly to a reduction in biomass energy use resulting from government liquefied petroleum gas promotion programs which helped households transition to the use of cleaner fuels. Age, education, illness reporting of household head, total household expenditure, household size and region of residence were fo ....

Nigeria General , Burkina Faso , United States , France General , Madhya Pradesh , Region De La Boucle Du Mouhoun , Western Region , Ghana General , Republic Of , Nepal General , Pulau Pinang , Comunidad Autonoma De Cataluna , Eastern Region , Dominican Republic , Upper West Region , Upper West , World Bank , District Of Columbia , Greater Accra , Viet Nam , Brong Ahafo , Abdul Wakeel Karakara , Muhammad Malik , Mofizul Islam , Asia Pac , Kim Phuong ,