Zusammenfassung: | |
Motivated by the interdependence of good health and economic development, I study different interventions that might strengthen the health system in improving the usage of specific health services in four essays. Lack of access, high costs, information or behavioral barriers can keep individuals from taking the decision to take up a health service. In the first essay, we examine the implications of a large health insurance reform in Indonesia, which has the potential to reduce the cost barrier to health care usage. We find that the reform appears to facilitate particularly the use of higher level health services, and that the newly eligible benefit to a lesser degree. In the remaining essays, I turn to preventive health behavior and low-touch text messaging interventions that could address information and behavioral barriers. On the one hand, my co-authors and I show that simple personalized SMS invitations to regular diabetes and hypertension screening services in Indonesia can increase their uptake. On the other hand, we identify factors that facilitate the uptake of individual preventive practices against a COVID-19 infection in Indonesia and Pakistan. On this basis, we further show that a personalized and targeted text messaging intervention delivered through a health insurance database can help particularly those who are at risk to suffer from a complicated COVID-19 infection to adhere to more preventive practices.
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Publikationstyp: | DoctoralThesis |
Publikationsstatus: | publishedVersion |
Erstveröffentlichung: | 2022 |
Schlagwörter (deutsch): | Gesundheit und Entwicklung, Gesundheitsverhalten, Gesundheitsvorsorge, SMS Intervention, COVID-19, Gesundheitssystem |
Schlagwörter (englisch): | Health behavior, Health insurance, Preventive health, SMS intervention, COVID-19, Health system |
Fachliche Zuordnung (DDC): | 330 | Wirtschaft |
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