Effect of a large-scale social franchising and telemedicine program on childhood diarrhea and pneumonia outcomes in India

Health Affairs

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1800-1809

  Mohanan, Manoj ^a,b   Babiarz, Kimberly S ^c   Goldhaber Fiebert, Jeremy D ^c   Miller, Grant ^c,d,e   Vera Hernández, Marcos ^f,g  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DIARRHEA; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INDIA; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL FRANCHISING; SOCIAL MARKETING; TELEMEDICINE; TREATMENT PLANNING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; INFANT; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIVATE SECTOR; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PRIVATE SECTOR; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84994226066     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0481     Document Type: Article

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