This paper presents the results of two field experiments on local accountability in primary health care in Uganda … beneficiary control without providing information on performance had no impact on quality of care or health outcomes. The paper … significant improvements in health care delivery and health outcomes in both the short and the longer run. Efforts to stimulate …

Physician Integrated Network (PIN) on health inequity in childhood vaccination rates.Methods: The study used administrative data … housed at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. We included all children born in Manitoba between 2003 and 2010 who were … vaccination rates and did not address health inequity …

Introduced as part of the War on Poverty, Community Health Centers (CHCs) deliver primary care to underserved … health using the rollout of CHCs and a flexible event study framework with Vital Statistics natality data. Our results show … residence. These improvements in infant health can be explained by increased access to early prenatal care and reductions in …

the demand for health-care services. Using data from the 1991-2006 waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find …-serious medical situations are found to be more sensitive to prices. We observe little impact on patient health, as measured by self …-reported poor health status …

visits and patient health. These additional visits come at the sacrifice of new patients: physicians accept 15% fewer new … the rollout and diffusion of e-visits in the health system we study. Identification comes from difference …

the demand for health-care services. Using data from the 1991-2006 waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find …-serious medical situations are found to be more sensitive to prices. We observe little impact on patient health, as measured by self …-reported poor health status …