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Improving Nutrition in Tanzania

This is a Request for Applications (RFA) posted by the United States Agency for International Development

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Is worker effort higher in church-based than in government health facilities?

A study of diagnostic effort documents low worker effort in both churchbased and government health facilities. Despite a strong perception among patients about good medical quality in church-based health clinics, health workers in these clinics do not ask more history taking questions or undertake more examinations. E...

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Labor Complementarities and Health in the Agricultural Household

Models of the agricultural household have traditionally relied on assumptions regarding the complementarity or substitutability of family labor inputs. We show how data on time allocations, health shocks and corresponding treatment choices can be used to test these assumptions. Data from Tanzania provide evidence that...

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Labor Supply, Schooling and the Returns to Healthcare in Tanzania

We estimate the effects of higher quality healthcare usage on health, labor supply and schooling outcomes for sick individuals in Tanzania. Using exogenous variation in the cost of formal sector healthcare to predict treatment choice, we show that using better quality care improves health outcomes and changes the allo...

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Malaria Education in Tanzania: Exploiting All Means of Outreach

Malaria remains the leading cause of both morbidity and mortality in Tanzania, especially among young children, despite a 50 percent reduction in infection rates over the past decade. Clearly, there is an ongoing need to educate the public about malaria's causes and methods of preventing infection.

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Medicinal Resources of the Miombo woodlands of Urumwa, Tanzania: Plants and its uses

A study was done to document different plants and their use for primary health care by communities around the Miombo woodland of Urumwa, Tanzania. Data collection was based on semi-structured interviews and discussion with key stakeholders. G-tests were carried out to seek differences in ethnobotanical knowledge betwe...