Ghost Doctors : Absenteeism in Rural Bangladeshi Health Facilities
Unannounced visits were made to health clinics in Bangladesh to determine what proportion of medical professionals were at their assigned post. Averaged over all job categories and types of facility, the absentee rate was 35 percent. The absentee r...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/09/17742235/ghost-doctors-absenteeism-rural-bangladeshi-health-facilities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17167 |
| Summary: | Unannounced visits were made to health
clinics in Bangladesh to determine what proportion of
medical professionals were at their assigned post. Averaged
over all job categories and types of facility, the absentee
rate was 35 percent. The absentee rate for physicians was 40
percent at the larger clinics and 74 percent at the smaller
sub-centers with a single physician. Whether the medical
provider lives near the health facility, the opportunity
cost of the provider's time, road access, and rural
electrification are highly correlated with the rate and
pattern of absenteeism. |
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