title: Getting essential health products to their end users: subsidize, but how much?
abstract: Although coverage rates and health outcomes are improving, many poor people around the world still do not benefit from essential health products. An estimated two-thirds of child deaths could be prevented with increased coverage of products such as vaccines, point-of-use water treatment, iron fortification, and insecticide-treated bednets. What limits the flow of products from the producer's laboratory bench to the end users, and what can be done about it? Recent empirical research suggests a crucial role for heavy subsidies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
authors.forename: Pascaline
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dupas
mesh_terms: D005380:Financing, Government; D006262:Health / Q000191:economics*; D006795:Household Products / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000517:prevention & control; D008851:Micropore Filters / Q000191:economics; D057147:Mosquito Nets / Q000191:economics; D011482:Protective Devices / Q000191:economics*