Impact evaluation of the Human Resource for Health Deployment Program (HRHDP)

Michael R.M. Abrigo, Gina A. Opiniano, and Zhandra C. Tam

We assess the short-term impacts of the Doctors-to-the-Barrios (DTTB), a national physician deployment program in the Philippines that augments the supply of rural healthcare workers in underserved areas, on several health sector outcomes. Using regression discontinuity design, we find that the DTTB program doubles modern contraceptives-use prevalence and reduces child underweight prevalence in poor municipalities, coinciding with increased propensity of having rural health physicians in the community. We estimated a program internal rate of return of 15.9%, which is likely to be severely understated.

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Year of publication:	February 2023
Authors:	Abrigo, Michael Ralph M. ; Opiniano, Gina A. ; Tam, Zhandra C.
Publisher:	Quezon City, Philippines : Philippine Institute for Development Studies
Subject:	rural health physician \| doctors-to-the-barrios program \| maternal and child health \| Gesundheit \| Health \| Kinder \| Children \| Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment \| Ärzte \| Physicians \| Mütter \| Mothers \| Gesundheitsversorgung \| Health care \| Ländlicher Raum \| Rural area \| Gesundheitsberufe \| Health personnel \| Ländliches Gesundheitswesen \| Rural health care \| Entwicklungsländer \| Developing countries