Community health
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Why informal workers don’t sign up for social insurance
A large temporary cash incentive rapidly enrolled millions of informal workers into Thailand's voluntary social insurance programme, demonstrating that enrolment barriers can be overcome when incentives are strong enough. However, the high dropout ra...
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Can community health teams reduce preventable hospitalisations?
When El Salvador deployed community health teams, the result was not simply more primary care – it was better-organised care, with more prevention, less infectious disease, and fewer patients ending up in hospital for conditions that should never hav...
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Do NGOs undermine government capacity? Evidence from health services in Uganda
NGO provision of health services in rural Uganda either complemented or undermined government capacity, depending on the supply of skilled labour