Invitations, Incentives, and Conditions : A Randomized Evaluation of Demand-Side Interventions for Health Screenings in Armenia
The study is a randomized controlled trial that investigates the impact of four demand-side interventions on health screening for diabetes and hypertension among Armenian adults ages 35-68 who had not been tested in the last 12 months. The interven...
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okr-10986-342782022-09-20T00:12:13Z Invitations, Incentives, and Conditions : A Randomized Evaluation of Demand-Side Interventions for Health Screenings in Armenia De Walque, Damien Chukwuma, Adanna Ayivi-Guedehoussou, Nono Koshkakaryan, Marianna NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES HYPERTENSION DIABETES HEALTH SCREENING INCENTIVES CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES The study is a randomized controlled trial that investigates the impact of four demand-side interventions on health screening for diabetes and hypertension among Armenian adults ages 35-68 who had not been tested in the last 12 months. The interventions are personal invitations from a physician (intervention group 1), personal invitations with information about peer screening behavior (intervention group 2), a labeled but unconditional cash transfer in the form of a pharmacy voucher (intervention group 3), and a conditional cash transfer in the form of a pharmacy voucher (intervention group 4). Compared with the control group in which only 3.5 percent of participants went for both screenings during the study period, interventions 1 to 3 led to a significant increase in the screening rate of about 15 percentage points among participants. The highest intervention impact was measured among recipients in intervention group 4, whose uptake of screening on both tests increased by 31.2 percentage points. The levels of cost-effectiveness of intervention groups 1, 2, and 4 are similar while for intervention group 3 it is about twice more expensive per additional person screened. 2020-08-06T13:40:21Z 2020-08-06T13:40:21Z 2020-07 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/672701596200009570/Invitations-Incentives-and-Conditions-A-Randomized-Evaluation-of-Demand-Side-Interventions-for-Health-Screenings-in-Armenia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34278 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9346 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Europe and Central Asia Armenia |
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NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES HYPERTENSION DIABETES HEALTH SCREENING INCENTIVES CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES De Walque, Damien Chukwuma, Adanna Ayivi-Guedehoussou, Nono Koshkakaryan, Marianna Invitations, Incentives, and Conditions : A Randomized Evaluation of Demand-Side Interventions for Health Screenings in Armenia |
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The study is a randomized controlled
trial that investigates the impact of four demand-side
interventions on health screening for diabetes and
hypertension among Armenian adults ages 35-68 who had not
been tested in the last 12 months. The interventions are
personal invitations from a physician (intervention group
1), personal invitations with information about peer
screening behavior (intervention group 2), a labeled but
unconditional cash transfer in the form of a pharmacy
voucher (intervention group 3), and a conditional cash
transfer in the form of a pharmacy voucher (intervention
group 4). Compared with the control group in which only 3.5
percent of participants went for both screenings during the
study period, interventions 1 to 3 led to a significant
increase in the screening rate of about 15 percentage points
among participants. The highest intervention impact was
measured among recipients in intervention group 4, whose
uptake of screening on both tests increased by 31.2
percentage points. The levels of cost-effectiveness of
intervention groups 1, 2, and 4 are similar while for
intervention group 3 it is about twice more expensive per
additional person screened. |
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Working Paper |
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De Walque, Damien Chukwuma, Adanna Ayivi-Guedehoussou, Nono Koshkakaryan, Marianna |
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De Walque, Damien Chukwuma, Adanna Ayivi-Guedehoussou, Nono Koshkakaryan, Marianna |
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De Walque, Damien |
| title |
Invitations, Incentives, and Conditions : A Randomized Evaluation of Demand-Side Interventions for Health Screenings in Armenia |
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Invitations, Incentives, and Conditions : A Randomized Evaluation of Demand-Side Interventions for Health Screenings in Armenia |
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Invitations, Incentives, and Conditions : A Randomized Evaluation of Demand-Side Interventions for Health Screenings in Armenia |
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Invitations, Incentives, and Conditions : A Randomized Evaluation of Demand-Side Interventions for Health Screenings in Armenia |
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Invitations, Incentives, and Conditions : A Randomized Evaluation of Demand-Side Interventions for Health Screenings in Armenia |
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invitations, incentives, and conditions : a randomized evaluation of demand-side interventions for health screenings in armenia |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2020 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/672701596200009570/Invitations-Incentives-and-Conditions-A-Randomized-Evaluation-of-Demand-Side-Interventions-for-Health-Screenings-in-Armenia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34278 |
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