Publication:
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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