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How do dual practitioners divide their time? The cases of three African capital cities

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  • McPake, Barbara
  • Russo, Giuliano
  • Tseng, Fu-Min

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Health professionals dual practice has received increasing attention, particularly in the context of the universal health coverage movement. This paper explores the determinants of doctors' choices to become a dual practitioner and of dual practitioners' choices to allocate time to the private sector in the capital cities of Mozambique, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde. The data are drawn from a survey conducted in 2012 among 329 physicians. We use a two-part model to analyse the decision of both public and private practitioners to become dual practitioners, and to allocate time between public and private sectors. We impute potential earnings in public and private practice by using nearest-neighbour propensity score matching.

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  • McPake, Barbara & Russo, Giuliano & Tseng, Fu-Min, 2014. "How do dual practitioners divide their time? The cases of three African capital cities," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 122(C), pages 113-121.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:122:y:2014:i:c:p:113-121
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.040
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