Public health systems that are capable of disease surveillance and action to prevent and manage outbreaks require … trustworthy community-embedded public health workers who are empowered to undertake their tasks as professionals. Economic theory … for how to recruit and manage frontline health workers to promote trustworthiness and professionalism. This paper provides …

Survey. It finds that the presence of a midwife in a community in utero leads to an improvement in overall health, cognition …

COVID-19, this paper draws from the World Bank's Service Delivery Indicator surveys to highlight key aspects of health …

The Three-Gap Model examines the determinants of low-quality health care by examining the patterns and determinants of … perform-this paper defines three gaps for each health worker: the gap between target performance and what they have the … across health workers in a sample can be used to diagnose failures in the system as well as evaluate the outcomes of policy …

Health care access is a challenge in rural areas in Africa. On the demand side, rural people are often poor, and … health care services provided is also often compromised. In Madagascar, the poor condition of the road network has long … hampered the sustainability of the medical supply chain in rural areas. The paper shows that people's demand for health care …