Does conducting a one-time household survey change the later behavior of those surveyed? Results from a two-stage field experiment on the purchase of hospitalization insurance in the Philippines suggest that it does. We started with a sample frame of clients from a large rural bank in the Philippines, and randomly selected individuals to either be surveyed or not surveyed by a local university ...

background: who suggest that family physician is the core in the world efforts for quality improvement, cost ef­fectiveness, and equity in the health care systems. this study evaluates the impact of the program on accessibility of the services, case finding, patient referral, feedback process and insurance coverage in the rural health units. methods: this study was quasi experimental. it compar...

This paper presents new evidence on the role of public health insurance in mitigating the adverse outcomes associated with health shocks. I exploit a natural experiment from the rollout of universal health insurance in rural China. Using longitudinal data spanning the period in question, I find that health insurance helps households maintain investment in children’s human capital and agricultur...

BACKGROUND Health disparities in cancer mortality for racial/ethnic minorities is a public health concern. Financial barriers are the major factors preventing cancer patients from accessing treatment in a timely manner. This article describes the characteristics of the Cancer Resource Center of the Desert (CRCD) Patient Navigator Program (PNP) in the rural underserved US-Mexico border region of...

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We randomize the insurance premium for the SKY micro-health insurance program in rural Cambodia, allowing us to estimate the causal effects of health insurance on economic, health care utilization, and health outcomes. We nd that SKY insurance has its greatest impact on economic outcomes. SKY also changed health-seeking behavior, increasing the use of covered public facilities and decreasing th...

In developing countries, the large majority of migrants move inside their own countries or to neighboring regions, yet there is limited evidence on whether internal migrants represent a source of insurance for their household of origin or vice-versa. To test whether transfers sent and received by migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the causal impact of income shocks at a migr...

OBJECTIVES To assess the trend of urban-rural disparities in hospital admissions and medical expenditure between 2003 and 2011 in the context of Chinese health-care system reform. METHODS The data were from three different national surveys: the Third National Health Services Survey in 2003, the Fourth National Health Services Survey in 2008 and the national health-care reform phased assessmen...

Objective. To assess determinants of health care visits among children in a 12-county region of western North Carolina representative of rural areas in the United States. Methods. Households were randomly selected for surveys of household characteristics, health status, and health care use. Surveys were conducted June 1999 to January 2000 and were stratified for children younger than 5 years an...