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Jun 11, 2008
This is a heads up from Tyler Cowen.
Three years of medical school in Tanzania results in only a 1 percentage point increase in the probability of a correct diagnosis. In Paraguay, the amount of time a doctor spends with a patient has nothing to do with the severity of the patient's illness.
This is from "The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-Income Countries," by Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer, and Kenneth Leonard, in the Spring 2008 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
2 Responses to “Don’t Get Sick in an LDC”
June 12th, 2008 at 5:49 am
Are people poor because they are sick? Or are they sick because they are poor?
Hat tip to Jason Shafrin: Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo find that for rural households, the probability that the mother is alive is 36 percentage points higher if the family has a daily per capita expenditures (DPCE) of $6 to $10 versus a DCPE of $1 to $2. Using a panel data set specification, the authors also find that adults over 50 living on less than $2 a day are at least three times as likely to die over the next five to seven years than those living on $6 to $10 a day.
June 14th, 2008 at 7:44 am
A very good question has been raised by John Goodman, I personally feel that people are sick because they are poor, the reason being that as they are poor they do not consume the required amount of vitamin, protein and other required minerals in the body, thus their body get caught by diseases
much easier than the rest. The being poor also denotes the fact that they may not be leading a healthy life.