This paper uses the gradual implementation of a primary health care intervention in Costa Rica to examine the long-term effect of primary health care on mortality. Nine years after opening a primary health care center, known as a Health Area, there was an associated 13 % reduction in...

Given the growing increase in revenue from oil royalties, Law 12858/2013 was enacted, which allocates 75% of this revenue to education and 25% to health. The Propensity Score Matching (PSM) combined with the Difference in Difference (DD) method is used to evaluate this policy in what regards...

We seek explanations for the prevalence of network health insurance combined with primary care. In our model, diagnosis and treatment are separately provided, and diagnostic information processing is layered: a patient's health status is first assessed by a general practitioner and then...

Background: Physical therapist business models are under pressure in several countries like the UK and The Netherlands as a result of changing health care market forces. Physical therapists feel the need to adjust their own business’ business model. But they don’t know exactly how it should...

This paper presents direct evidence on the quality of health care in low-income settings using a unique and original set of audit studies, where standardized patients were presented to a nearly representative sample of rural public and private primary care providers in the Indian state of Madhya...

This paper investigates whether a large-scale deworming intervention aimed at primary school pupils in western Kenya had long-term effects on young children in the region. The paper exploits positive externalities from the program to estimate the impact on younger children who did not receive...

This paper presents the results of two field experiments on local accountability in primary health care in Uganda. Efforts to stimulate beneficiary control, coupled with the provision of report cards on staff performance, resulted in significant improvements in health care delivery and health...

Given the global, national, and local impact of skin cancer in terms of morbidity/mortality as well as direct economic cost to treat, and the fact that skin cancer development in adulthood is mediated by exposure to ultraviolet radiation in youth and adolescence, the development of a skin cancer...