Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
7-2018
Abstract
Absenteeism of health workers in developing countries is common and can severely undermine the reliability of health system. Therefore, it is important to understand where the prevalence of absenteeism is high. We develop a simple imputation method that combines a Service Delivery Indicators survey and a Service Provision Assessment survey to estimate the prevalence of absenteeism of health workers at the level of regions in Tanzania. The resulting estimates allow one to identify the regions in which the prevalence of absenteeism is significantly higher or lower than the national average and help policymakers determine the priority areas for intervention.
Keywords
Sub-Saharan Africa, primary health facility, imputation, random-effects probit, service delivery indicator.
Discipline
Health Economics | Labor Economics
Research Areas
Applied Microeconomics
First Page
1
Last Page
10
Publisher
SMU Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series, No. 14-2018
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
FUJII, Tomoki.
Regional prevalence of health worker absenteeism in Tanzania. (2018). 1-10.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2185
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Comments
Published in Health Economics, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3844