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Using unique direct observations of patient-provider interactions linked to patient exit interviews and detailed household surveys, this paper assesses the relationship between patient wealth and the quality and price of antenatal care in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Overall, the analysis...
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This study conducted an experiment in Mali to test whether patients pressure doctors to prescribe medical treatment … they do not necessarily need. The experiment varied patients' information about a discount for antimalarial tablets and …: informing patients about the discount, instead of letting doctors decide to share this information, increased discount use by 35 …
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"Aid to developing countries has largely neglected the population-wide health services that are core to communicable disease control in the developed world. These mostly non-clinical services generate "pure public goods" by reducing everyone's exposure to disease through measures such as...
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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 on incentives and norms of agents tasked with...
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