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

targeted text messages can increase the demand for existing public screening services for diabetes and hypertension in the at …

The effect of new health information on individuals' expectations about their longevity is examined using a Bayesian … more extensive advice on health behavior from their physicians. The subjective probability of survival declines with health …

aimed at improving delivery of primary health and nutrition services to children and pregnant women. Using a village level … healthcare delivery and health outcomes: information provision about health service entitlements and facilitation of collective …Community-based accountability interventions have shown potential to improve delivery of public services, but there is …

Health screening provides information on disease risk and diagnosis, but whether this promotes health is unclear. We … estimate the impacts of the National Health Screening Program in Korea for diabetes, obesity, and hyperlipidemia. In this … setting, information on disease risk and prompting for a secondary examination vary at different biomarker thresholds. We find …