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Increasing Rural Health Clinic Utilization with SMS Updates : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Uganda
Chicoine, Luke - 2016
This paper examines an alternative to monitoring staff at a public health clinic in rural Uganda. The program sent SMS updates regarding confirmed attendance of clinic staff and activities to randomly selected cell phone-owning households in the local community. A difference-in-difference...
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Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China
Shen, Chi; Lai, Sha; Deng, Qiwei; Cao, Dan; Zhao, Dantong; … - 2023
Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years …. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services … provider in China, we applied a multilevel linear model and a geographically weighted regression to examine spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346209
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Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms : Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - 2012
We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110858
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Patients Whose GP Knows Complementary Medicine Tend to Have Lower Costs and Live Longer
Kooreman, Peter - 2011
Health economists have largely ignored complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as an area of research, although both clinical experiences and several empirical studies suggest cost-effectiveness of CAM. The objective of this paper is to explore the cost-effectiveness of CAM compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123914
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Do the Obese Really Die Younger or Do Health Expenditures Buy Them Extra Years?
Frijters, Paul - 2010
A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been argued that the obese die younger, the data that have become available do not immediately support this. This potentially undermines the hypothesis that modern life with its physical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152786
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Changes in Healthcare Utilization, Spending, and Perceived Health During Covid–19 : A Longitudinal Study from Singapore
Ahn, SangNam - 2020
The COVID–19 pandemic has challenged the capacity of healthcare systems around the world and can potentially compromise healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients. Using monthly panel data of nationally representative middle-aged and older Singaporeans, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822866
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Increasing Coverage of Antiretroviral Therapy and Male Medical Circumcision in HIV Hyperendemic Countries : A Cost-Benefit Analysis
Geldsetzer, Pascal - 2015
HIV continues to cause the largest number of disability-adjusted life years of any disease in HIV hyperendemic countries (i.e., countries with an adult HIV prevalence 15%). We compare the benefits and costs of two proven biological interventions to reduce the health losses due to the HIV...
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Healthcare Utilization at Retirement : The Role of the Opportunity Cost of Time
Lucifora, Claudio - 2018
We investigate the causal impact of retirement on healthcare utilization using SHARE data for 10 European countries. We show that the number of doctor's visits and the probability of visiting a doctor more than four times a year (our measures of healthcare utilization) increase after retirement....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912245
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New Evidence on the Role of Remittances on Health Care Expenditures by Mexican Households
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2010
Using Mexico's 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are spent on health. The sensitivity of health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149818
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Social Learning and Health Insurance Enrollment : Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme
Liu, Hong - 2013
Scheme in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using a rich dataset from the China Health and …
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