The Effect of Absenteeism and Clinic Protocol on Health Outcomes : The Case of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya

We show that pregnant women whose first clinic visit coincides with the nurse's attendance are 58 percentage points more likely to test for HIV and 46 percent more likely to deliver in a hospital. Furthermore, women with high pretest expectations of being HIV positive, whose visit coincides wit...

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Main Authors:	Goldstein, Markus, Graff Zivin, Joshua, Habyarimana, James, Pop-Eleches, Cristian, Thirumurthy, Harsha
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	American Economic Association 2014
Subjects:	health production economics of gender gender discrimination economic development human resources human development income distribution migration
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17925

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spelling	okr-10986-179252021-04-23T14:03:41Z The Effect of Absenteeism and Clinic Protocol on Health Outcomes : The Case of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya Goldstein, Markus Graff Zivin, Joshua Habyarimana, James Pop-Eleches, Cristian Thirumurthy, Harsha health production economics of gender gender discrimination economic development human resources human development income distribution migration We show that pregnant women whose first clinic visit coincides with the nurse's attendance are 58 percentage points more likely to test for HIV and 46 percent more likely to deliver in a hospital. Furthermore, women with high pretest expectations of being HIV positive, whose visit coincides with nurse attendance, are 25 and 7.4 percentage points more likely to deliver in a hospital and receive PMTCT medication, and 9 percentage points less likely to breast-feed than women whose visit coincides with nurse absence. The shortcomings that prevent pregnant women from testing on a subsequent visit are common in sub-Saharan Africa. 2014-04-21T18:26:15Z 2014-04-21T18:26:15Z 2013-04 Journal Article American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1945-7782 10.1257/app.5.2.58 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17925 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo American Economic Association American Economic Association Publications & Research :: Journal Article Kenya
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spellingShingle	health production economics of gender gender discrimination economic development human resources human development income distribution migration Goldstein, Markus Graff Zivin, Joshua Habyarimana, James Pop-Eleches, Cristian Thirumurthy, Harsha The Effect of Absenteeism and Clinic Protocol on Health Outcomes : The Case of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya
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description	We show that pregnant women whose first clinic visit coincides with the nurse's attendance are 58 percentage points more likely to test for HIV and 46 percent more likely to deliver in a hospital. Furthermore, women with high pretest expectations of being HIV positive, whose visit coincides with nurse attendance, are 25 and 7.4 percentage points more likely to deliver in a hospital and receive PMTCT medication, and 9 percentage points less likely to breast-feed than women whose visit coincides with nurse absence. The shortcomings that prevent pregnant women from testing on a subsequent visit are common in sub-Saharan Africa.
format	Journal Article
author	Goldstein, Markus Graff Zivin, Joshua Habyarimana, James Pop-Eleches, Cristian Thirumurthy, Harsha
author_facet	Goldstein, Markus Graff Zivin, Joshua Habyarimana, James Pop-Eleches, Cristian Thirumurthy, Harsha
author_sort	Goldstein, Markus
title	The Effect of Absenteeism and Clinic Protocol on Health Outcomes : The Case of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya
title_short	The Effect of Absenteeism and Clinic Protocol on Health Outcomes : The Case of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya
title_full	The Effect of Absenteeism and Clinic Protocol on Health Outcomes : The Case of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya
title_fullStr	The Effect of Absenteeism and Clinic Protocol on Health Outcomes : The Case of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya
title_full_unstemmed	The Effect of Absenteeism and Clinic Protocol on Health Outcomes : The Case of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya
title_sort	effect of absenteeism and clinic protocol on health outcomes : the case of mother-to-child transmission of hiv in kenya
publisher	American Economic Association
publishDate	2014
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17925
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The Effect of Absenteeism and Clinic Protocol on Health Outcomes : The Case of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya

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