Drawing on data from the seventh round of the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS 7), we examine the effect of energy poverty on household health expenditures. Further, we analyse the mediating role of health insurance and remittances in the link between energy poverty and health expenditure. Employing a heteroscedastic double-hurdle estimation model, we find that energy poverty increases household health expenditures. Our results also suggest that the negative effect of energy poverty on household health expenditures is significantly reduced through health insurance and remittances. Using Oster's (2014) bounds approach, we demonstrate that our results are robust to omitted variable bias. The policy implications from the findings suggest that broadening the scope of national health insurance while eliminating barriers that hinder the inflow and receipt of remittances by households are key to achieving optimal health outcomes.

利用第七轮加纳生活水平调查 (GLSS 7) 的数据，我们研究了能源贫困对家庭健康支出的影响。此外，我们分析了健康保险和汇款在能源贫困与健康支出之间的联系中的中介作用。采用异方差双障碍估计模型，我们发现能源贫困增加了家庭健康支出。我们的结果还表明，通过医疗保险和汇款，能源贫困对家庭健康支出的负面影响显着降低。使用 Oster (2014) 的边界方法，我们证明了我们的结果对于省略的变量偏差是稳健的。