Information is Power : Experimental Evidence on the Long-Run Impact of Community Based Monitoring

Bjorkman Nyqvist, Martina ; de Walque, Damien ; Svensson, Jakob

World Bank Group, Washington, DC

关键词: AGED;    ANTENATAL CARE;    ANTENATAL VISITS;    BCG;    BLOOD SAMPLES;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-7015
RP-ID  :  WPS7015

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper presents the results of twofield experiments on local accountability in primary healthcare in Uganda. Efforts to stimulate beneficiary control,coupled with the provision of report cards on staffperformance, resulted in significant improvements in healthcare delivery and health outcomes in both the short and thelonger run. Efforts to stimulate beneficiary control withoutproviding information on performance had no impact onquality of care or health outcomes. The paper shows thatinformed users are more likely to identify and challenge(mis)behavior by providers and as a result turn their focusto issues that they can manage locally.