Gender Differences in Children's Antibiotic Use and Adherence
Using in-home health records for 1,763 children in Mali, this paper examines gender differences in the uptake and duration of treatment with antibiotics. The detailed data provide a window into parents’ day-to-day decisions while accounting for sym...
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okr-10986-351342022-09-20T00:10:15Z Gender Differences in Children's Antibiotic Use and Adherence Blandhol, Christine Sautmann, Anja GENDER MEDICATION ADHERENCE ANTIBIOTICS MISSING WOMEN HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY Using in-home health records for 1,763 children in Mali, this paper examines gender differences in the uptake and duration of treatment with antibiotics. The detailed data provide a window into parents’ day-to-day decisions while accounting for symptoms. There are no gender differences in starting treatment, but boys are over 10 percentage points more likely to complete a course of antibiotics than girls. This difference is driven by families with an educated household head. An explanation may be that (male) household heads are less involved in caring for girls, so that benefits from education that lead to better care accrue overproportionally to boys. 2021-02-11T18:04:12Z 2021-02-11T18:04:12Z 2021-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/227691612963422330/Gender-Differences-in-Childrens-Antibiotic-Use-and-Adherence http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35134 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9542 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 Africa Africa Western and Central (AFW) Mali |
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Using in-home health records for 1,763
children in Mali, this paper examines gender differences in
the uptake and duration of treatment with antibiotics. The
detailed data provide a window into parents’ day-to-day
decisions while accounting for symptoms. There are no gender
differences in starting treatment, but boys are over 10
percentage points more likely to complete a course of
antibiotics than girls. This difference is driven by
families with an educated household head. An explanation may
be that (male) household heads are less involved in caring
for girls, so that benefits from education that lead to
better care accrue overproportionally to boys. |
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Working Paper |
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Blandhol, Christine Sautmann, Anja |
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Blandhol, Christine Sautmann, Anja |
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Blandhol, Christine |
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Gender Differences in Children's Antibiotic Use and Adherence |
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Gender Differences in Children's Antibiotic Use and Adherence |
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Gender Differences in Children's Antibiotic Use and Adherence |
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Gender Differences in Children's Antibiotic Use and Adherence |
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Gender Differences in Children's Antibiotic Use and Adherence |
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gender differences in children's antibiotic use and adherence |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2021 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/227691612963422330/Gender-Differences-in-Childrens-Antibiotic-Use-and-Adherence http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35134 |
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