The community health worker as service extender, cultural broker and social change agent: a critical interpretive synthesis of roles, intent and accountability

M Schaaf, C Warthin, L Freedman, SM Topp - BMJ Global Health, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
This paper is a critical interpretive synthesis of community health workers (CHWs) and
accountability in low-income and middle-income countries. The guiding questions were …

[图书][B] WHO guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes

World Health Organization - 2018 - apps.who.int
Addressing health workforce shortage, maldistribution and performance challenges is
essential for progress towards all health-related goals, including universal health coverage …

Why do defaults affect behavior? Experimental evidence from Afghanistan

J Blumenstock, M Callen, T Ghani - American Economic Review, 2018 - aeaweb.org
We report on an experiment examining why default options impact behavior. By randomly
assigning employees to different varieties of a salary-linked savings account, we find that …

In vaccines we trust? The effects of the CIA's vaccine ruse on immunization in Pakistan

M Martinez-Bravo, A Stegmann - Journal of the European …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract In July 2011, the Pakistani public learnt that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
had used a vaccination campaign as cover to capture Osama Bin Laden. The Taliban …

Decision theoretic approaches to experiment design and external validity

AV Banerjee, S Chassang, E Snowberg - Handbook of Economic Field …, 2017 - Elsevier
A modern, decision-theoretic framework can help clarify important practical questions of
experimental design. Building on our recent work, this chapter begins by summarizing our …

Time inconsistent charitable giving

J Andreoni, M Serra-Garcia - Journal of Public Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
We usually assume purchasers of commodities experience utility at the point of transacting a
purchase, when money and ownership are exchanged. With charitable giving, the social …

Interventions addressing routine childhood immunization and its behavioral and social drivers

SS Parsekar, L Vadrevu, M Jain, S Menon… - Frontiers in Public …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Despite the advances in vaccination, there are still several challenges in
reaching millions of children in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). In this review, we …

Psychological effects of poverty on time preferences

V Bartoš, M Bauer, J Chytilová, I Levely - The Economic Journal, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We test whether an environment of poverty affects time preferences through purely
psychological channels. We measured discount rates among farmers in Uganda who made …

Self-control and demand for preventive health: Evidence from hypertension in India

L Bai, B Handel, E Miguel, G Rao - Review of Economics and …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Self-control problems constitute a potential explanation for the underinvestment in
preventive health in low-income countries. Behavioral economics offers a tool to solve such …

Asymmetric naivete: Beliefs about self-control

A Fedyk - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Do individuals anticipate time inconsistency in others? This paper jointly investigates beliefs
about one's own and others' present bias. In an online laboratory experiment, participants …