A5089634381- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Global Health Care Issues
- Quality and Safety in Healthcare
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
University Hospital Heidelberg
2019-2022
Heidelberg University
2019-2022
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
2019-2021
Gerresheimer (Germany)
2019
The last two decades have seen a growing recognition of the need to expand impact evaluation toolbox from an exclusive focus on randomized controlled trials including quasi-experimental approaches. This appears be particularly relevant when complex health interventions embedded in real-life settings often characterized by multiple research interests, limited researcher control, concurrently implemented policies and interventions, other internal validity-threatening circumstances. To date,...
Background : As countries reform health financing systems towards universal coverage, increasing concerns emerge on the need to ensure inclusion of most vulnerable segments society, working counteract existing inequities in service coverage. To this end, selected sub-Saharan Africa have decided couple performance-based (PBF) with demand-side equity measures. Still, evidence impacts these more complex PBF models is largely lacking. We aimed at filling gap knowledge by assessing impact...
Abstract In spite of the wide attention performance-based financing (PBF) has received over past decade, no evidence is available on its impacts quantity and mix service provision nor interaction with parallel health interventions. Our study aimed to examine PBF impact in Burkina Faso, while accounting for introduction a free healthcare policy. We used Health Management Information System data from 838 primary-level facilities across 24 districts relied an interrupted time-series analysis...
Abstract Objective To evaluate the impact of Performance‐Based Financing (PBF) on effective coverage child curative health services in primary healthcare facilities Burkina Faso. Methods An evaluation a PBF pilot programme, using an experiment nested within quasi‐experimental design, was carried out 12 intervention and comparison districts six regions Across 24 districts, (537 both at baseline endline) households (baseline = 7978 endline 7898) were surveyed. Within these households, 350 15...
About half of all medical devices in low- and lower-middle-income countries are currently non-operational because equipment maintenance is lacking. Thus, choosing a cost-efficient approach has the potential to increase both quantity quality important health services. Between 2010 2014 Nepal's Ministry Health chose two its development regions pilot contracting-out services private sector. We develop cost model employ different data calculate this contracted-out scheme. The latter we compare...
We investigate the properties of health insurance demand in Burkina Faso, where we offered poor households a voluntary product at half usual price. The targeting procedure implemented delivers fuzzy regression discontinuity design, which identifies price elasticity for as well associated selection effects. find large elasticities among urban households, whereas rural is inelastic. There are important effects, with widowed male household heads being most sensitive. Correlating these...
Abstract Targeting of governmental welfare programmes in low-income countries commonly relies on statistical procedures involving household-level data, while smaller-scale often employ community-based targeting, where village communities themselves identify beneficiaries. Combining original data from targeting exercises Burkina Faso with a household survey we compare the accuracy four common methods when objective is to target consumption-poor households. We find that substantially less...
A body of recent studies has compared the ability proxy-means testing (PMT), a data-driven poverty targeting procedure, and community-based (CBT), participatory method,to identify consumption-poor households. Motivated by facts that targeted benefits typically reach beneficiaries with substantial time lag transitions into out are frequent, we first to assess PMT’s CBT’s performance one two years subsequent exercise. With data from Burkina Faso, replicate finding PMT targets more accurately...