Improving access to preventive maternal health care using reminders: Experimental evidence from Guatemala

Matias Busso, Dario Romero and Dario Salcedo

Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 161, issue C, 43-46

Abstract: This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to improve access to prenatal care of pregnant women in a low-resource setting. A simple intervention of timely reminders delivered in person by community health care workers was found to increase prenatal doctor visits by 3.4-7.8 percentage points. The effect was larger for women with riskier pregnancies.

Keywords: Reminders; Prenatal care; Field experiment; Guatemala (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 I12 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.09.018

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