Health screening for emerging non-communicable disease burdens among the global poor: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

•Evidence lacks on the effectiveness of NCD health screenings in low-income contexts.•We show sustained effects of referrals given to persons with high blood pressure.•Recipients of referral letters have a lower blood pressure, and lower probability of being hypertensive by about 22 percentage point...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of health economics 2021-01, Vol.75, p.102388-102388, Article 102388
Hauptverfasser:	Ciancio, Alberto, Kämpfen, Fabrice, Kohler, Hans-Peter, Kohler, Iliana V.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Blood pressure Business & Economics Communicable diseases Discontinuity Drugs Economics Exercise Health aspects Health Care Sciences & Services Health economics Health Policy & Services Health screening Humans Hypertension Hypertension - diagnosis Hypertension - epidemiology Income Infectious diseases Life Sciences & Biomedicine Low income groups Low-income countries Malawi Malawi - epidemiology Mass Screening Matching estimator Medical screening Mental health Non-communicable diseases Noncommunicable Diseases - epidemiology Physical activity Population studies Referral and Consultation Regression discontinuity design Risk behavior Risk taking Science & Technology Social Sciences Statistical analysis Sugar Uptake
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