 Assessing the impact of more doctors’ program on healthcare indicators in BrazilEnlinson Mattos and Debora Mazetto World Development, 2019, vol. 123, issue C, - Abstract: This paper aimed to assess the short term effects of the More Doctors Program, launched by the Brazilian federal government in 2013. Using a differences-in-differences approach with municipal data collected between 2010 and 2015, we confirmed that MDP has two correlated impacts. First, it has increased health service attendance in treated municipalities. We documented that appointments, consults, referrals, and home visits have increased by 5.9%, 9.4%, 12.3%, and 29.7%, respectively. Second, we found a negative impact on hospitalization. We argue that intensification of health service access has reduced general hospitalization (4.6%). However, it does not seem to have been able to reduce mortality in the municipalities, in line with the previous literature. We believe that increases in referrals and appointments with specialists can be interpreted as a quality improvement, since a more precise diagnosis can reduce hospitalization due to faster health recovery but without any impact on mortality. Keywords: Policy evaluation; Physicians supply; Healthcare indicators (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:123:y:2019:i:c:6 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104617 Access Statistics for this article World Development is currently edited by O. T. Coomes More articles in World Development from Elsevier |
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