IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/phd/dpaper/dp_2023-03.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Impact Evaluation of the Human Resource for Health Deployment Program (HRHDP)

Author

Listed:
  • Opiniano, Gina A.
  • Abrigo, Michael R.M.
  • Tam, Zhandra C.

Abstract

We assess the short-term impacts of the Doctors-to-the-Barrios (DTTB), a national physician deployment program in the Philippines that augments the supply of rural healthcare workers in underserved areas, on several health sector outcomes. Using regression discontinuity design, we find that the DTTB program doubles modern contraceptive-use prevalence and reduces child underweight prevalence in poor municipalities, coinciding with an increased propensity of having rural health physicians in the community. We estimated an internal program rate of return of 15.9%, which is likely to be severely understated. Comments to this paper are welcome within 60 days from the date of posting. Email publications@pids.gov.ph.

Suggested Citation

  • Opiniano, Gina A. & Abrigo, Michael R.M. & Tam, Zhandra C., 2023. "Impact Evaluation of the Human Resource for Health Deployment Program (HRHDP)," Discussion Papers DP 2023-03, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
    • Handle: RePEc:phd:dpaper:dp_2023-03
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.pids.gov.ph/publication/discussion-papers/impact-evaluation-of-the-human-resource-for-health-deployment-program-hrhdp
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    rural health physician; doctors-to-the-barrios program; maternal and child health; healthcare workers;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:phd:dpaper:dp_2023-03. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Aniceto Orbeta (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/pidgvph.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.