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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| Language: | en_US |
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American Economic Association
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17925 |