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Impact of Intermittent Screening and Treatment for Malaria Among School Children in Kenya : A Cluster Randomized Trial
Halliday, Katherine - 2017
school children in an area of low-to-moderate malaria transmission. A cluster randomized trial was implemented with 5 …,233 children in 101 government primary schools on the south coast of Kenya in 2010-12. The intervention was delivered to children … workers used malaria rapid diagnostic tests to screen the children. Children who tested positive were treated with a six …
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They Got Mad Skills : The Effects of Training on Youth Employability and Resilience to the Ebola Shock
Rosas, Nina - 2017
This paper discusses a randomized control trial to measure the short-term impacts of a skills intervention among urban youth in Sierra Leone at the onset of the Ebola crisis. The intervention provided (i) technical skills training, plus on-the-job training; (ii) business skills training; and...
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If it Pays, it Stays : Can Agribusiness Internalize the Benefits of Malaria Control?
Sedlmayr, Richard - 2017
Might a malaria control intervention entail agricultural effects that allow a commercial agribusiness to offset its costs? The randomized allocation of 39,936 insecticide-treated mosquito nets among 81,597 smallholder cotton farming households in 1,507 clusters helps evaluate this in the context...
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Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2017
It is often argued that engaging in indoor residual spraying in areas with high coverage of mosquito bed nets may discourage net ownership and use. This is just a case of a public program having perverse incentives. This paper analyzes new data from a randomized control trial conducted in...
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Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity : Experimental Evidence from Malaria Testing and Treatment Among Nigerian Sugarcane Cutters
Dillon, Andrew - 2017
Agricultural and other physically demanding sectors are important sources of growth in developing countries but prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and choice of job tasks among workers by reducing physical capacity. This study identifies the...
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Does Involvement of Local Ngos Enhance Public Service Delivery? Cautionary Evidence from a Malaria-Prevention Evaluation in India
Das, Ashis - 2017
Using data from an experimental supportive intervention to India's malaria control program, this paper studies the impact of leveraging local non-state capacity to promote mosquito net usage and recommended fever care-seeking patterns. The supportive activities were conducted simultaneously by...
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Strengthening Malaria Service Delivery Through Supportive Supervision and Community Mobilization in an Endemic Indian Setting : An Evaluation of Nested Delivery Models
Das, Ashis - 2017
Malaria continues to be a prominent global public health challenge, in part because of the slow population adoption of recommended preventive and curative behaviors. This paper tests the effectiveness of two service delivery models designed to promote recommended behaviors, including prompt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973151
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Health Costs and Benefits of Ddt Use in Malaria Control and Prevention
Blankespoor, Brian - 2017
The Millennium Development Goal of achieving near-zero malaria deaths by 2015 has led to a re-examination of wider use of DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane) in indoor residual spraying as a prevention tool in many countries. However, the use of DDT raises concerns of potential harm to the...
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Do Informed Citizens Receive More...Or Pay More? The Impact of Radio on the Government Distribution of Public Health Benefits
Keefer, Philip - 2017
The government provision of free or subsidized bed nets to combat malaria in Benin allows the identification of new channels through which mass media affect public policy outcomes. Prior research has concluded that governments provide greater private benefits to better-informed individuals....
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Identifying Catch-Up Trajectories in Child Growth : New Methods with Evidence from Young Lives
Jones, Sam - 2018
Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper …
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