Return to Treatment in the Formal Health Care Sector: Evidence from Tanzania
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Abstract
Improving access to the formal health care sector is a primary public health goal in many low-income countries. But the returns to this access are unclear, given that the quality of care at public health facilities is often considered inadequate. We exploit temporal and geographic variation in the cost of traveling to formal sector health facilities to show that treatment at these facilities improves short-term health outcomes for acutely ill children in Tanzania. Our results suggest that these improvements are driven in part by more timely receipt of and better adherence to antimalarial treatment. (JEL I11, I12, I15, I18, J13, O15)Citation
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, and Anant Nyshadham. 2015. "Return to Treatment in the Formal Health Care Sector: Evidence from Tanzania." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 7 (3): 29-57. DOI: 10.1257/pol.20120262Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets
- I12 Health Behavior
- I15 Health and Economic Development
- I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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