Reduced health services at under-electrified primary healthcare facilities: Evidence from India.

ABSTRACT: Primary healthcare systems worldwide suffer from major gaps in infrastructure and human resources. One key infrastructure gap is access to reliable electricity, absence of which can significantly affect the quantity and quality of healthcare services being delivered at rural primary health facilities. However, absence of granular empirical evidence is a barrier for quantitatively understanding the significance of electricity access as one of the determinants of access to reliable primary healthcare. Using data from India's District Level Household and Facility Survey, we develop zero-inflated negative binomial models with co-variates and state-level fixed effects to estimate the relationship between levels of electricity access and the quantity of basic health services delivered at Primary

SUBMITTER: Shastry V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8177862 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature