Return to Treatment in the Formal Health Care Sector: Evidence from Tanzania

Achyuta Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, vol. 7, issue 3, 29-57

Abstract: Improving access to the formal health care sector is a primary public health goal in many low-income countries. But the returns to this access are unclear, given that the quality of care at public health facilities is often considered inadequate. We exploit temporal and geographic variation in the cost of traveling to formal sector health facilities to show that treatment at these facilities improves short-term health outcomes for acutely ill children in Tanzania. Our results suggest that these improvements are driven in part by more timely receipt of and better adherence to antimalarial treatment. (JEL I11, I12, I15, I18, J13, O15)

JEL-codes: I11 I12 I15 I18 J13 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
Note: DOI: 10.1257/pol.20120262
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