Search Results - subject:"Community Health Workers"

The seen and unseen: the unintended impact of a conditional cash transfer program on prenatal sex selection

Javadekar, Sayli; Saxena, Kritika - In: Journal of Population Economics 38 (2025) 1

health workers as well as access to prenatal sex detection technology such as ultrasound scans. Using difference … surviving in treated states between 2006 and 2015. Finally, we find suggestive evidence that the involvement of community health … existing trends in prenatal sex selection through its simultaneous provision of cash incentives to households and community …

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The impact of community midwives on maternal healthcare utilization

Musaddiq, Tareena - In: Health economics 32 (2023) 3, pp. 697-714

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The seen and the unseen: Impact of a conditional cash transfer program on prenatal sex selection

Javadekar, Sayli; Saxena, Kritika - 2021

households and community health workers for every live birth, this program altered existing trends in prenatal sex selection … role played by community health workers in facilitating the program is a key driver of the decline in prenatal sex …

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The seen and the unseen : impact of a conditional cash transfer program on prenatal sex selection

Javadekar, Sayli; Saxena, Kritika - 2021

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Expanding access to clean water for the rural poor : experimental evidence from Malawi

Dupas, Pascaline; Nhlema, Basimenye; Wagner, Zachary; … - 2020

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Subsidies, information, and the timing of children’s health care in Mali

Sautmann, Anja; Brown, Samuel; Dean, Mark - 2020

Sustained progress in reducing child mortality requires better care for children who are acutely illustrations This paper studies how health care subsidies and health workers providing information on symptoms affect the overuse and underuse of primary care, which depend not just on absolute...

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Impact and efficiency of the integration of diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia in malaria community case management in Madagascar

Razakamanana, Marilys Victoire; Audibert, Martine; … - 2017

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Socioeconomic Differences in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: Sources of Family Planning

Cortez, Rafael; Brindis, Claire; Decker, Mara; Yarger, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015

Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) is one of five areas of focus of the World Bank?s Reproductive Health Action Plan 2010?2015 (RHAP), which recognizes the importance of addressing ASRH as a development issue with important implications for poverty reduction. Delaying childbearing...

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Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health Policy Harmonization in Bangladesh

El-Saharty, Sameh; Ahsan, Karar Zunaid; May, John F. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Over the past 30 years, Bangladesh has achieved significant economic and human development progress, and demonstrated impressive policy as well as programmatic commitment to lowering the fertility level. However, its future socioeconomic prospects may be hampered by its population growth rate,...

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Barefoot and Footloose Doctors: Optimal Resource Allocation in Developing Countries with Medical Migration

Roemer, John E.; Dias, Pedro Rosa - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2013

healthcare provision, in which Community Health Workers (CHWs) supplement service provision by fully qualified physicians. CHWs …

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