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Subsidies, Information, and the Timing of Children’s Health Care in Mali

dc.contributor.author Sautmann, Anja
dc.contributor.author Brown, Samuel
dc.contributor.author Dean, Mark
dc.date.accessioned 2020-11-30T22:28:42Z
dc.date.available 2020-11-30T22:28:42Z
dc.date.issued 2020-11
dc.description.abstract Sustained progress in reducing child mortality requires better care for children who are acutely ill. 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 levels of demand, but also on whether care is received when the child is actually sick. In a randomized controlled trial of 1,768 children in Mali, the study collected a unique panel of nine weeks of daily symptom and health care use data to study the impact of each policy on demand conditional on need for care, as defined by World Health Organization standards. Subsidies substantially increase care when it is medically indicated, while overuse remains rare. Health worker visits have no aggregate effect on demand, but they may help the youngest children take advantage of the subsidy. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/880531606763203323/Subsidies-Information-and-the-Timing-of-Children-s-Health-Care-in-Mali
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34841
dc.language English
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9486
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject CHILD HEALTH
dc.subject ACUTE HEALTHCARE
dc.subject HEALTHCARE SUBSIDY
dc.subject COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS
dc.subject ACUTE ILLNESS
dc.title Subsidies, Information, and the Timing of Children’s Health Care in Mali en
dc.type Working Paper en
dc.type Document de travail fr
dc.type Documento de trabajo es
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.date.disclosure 2020-11-30
okr.doctype Publications & Research
okr.doctype Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/880531606763203323/Subsidies-Information-and-the-Timing-of-Children-s-Health-Care-in-Mali
okr.identifier.doi 10.1596/1813-9450-9486
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 090224b088046575_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 32621705
okr.identifier.report WPS9486
okr.imported true en
okr.language.supported en
okr.pdfurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/880531606763203323/pdf/Subsidies-Information-and-the-Timing-of-Children-s-Health-Care-in-Mali.pdf en
okr.region.administrative Africa
okr.region.administrative Africa Western and Central (AFW)
okr.region.country Mali
okr.statistics.combined 2837
okr.statistics.dr 880531606763203323
okr.statistics.drstats 2607
okr.topic Health, Nutrition and Population :: Early Child and Children's Health
okr.topic Health, Nutrition and Population :: Health Economics & Finance
okr.topic Health, Nutrition and Population :: Health Service Management and Delivery
okr.unit Development Research Group, Development Economics
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