Return to Treatment in the Formal Health Care Sector: Evidence from Tanzania

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Southern California
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20120262
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 29-57
• 关键词: essential medicines; QUALITY; uncertainty; INVESTMENT; therapy; malaria; access; LABOR

摘要

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.