TY - GEN
AU - Mensah, Justice Tei
AU - Abay, Kibrom A.
AU - Tafere, Kibrom
TI - Saving Lives through Technology Mobile Phones and Infant Mortality
PB - The World Bank
KW - Access To Medicine
KW - Digital Technology Access
KW - Early Child and Children's Health
KW - Health Access
KW - Health Intervention
KW - Health Systems Development and Reform
KW - Health, Nutrition and Population
KW - Infant Mortality Data
KW - Infant Mortality Reduction
KW - Information and Communication Technologies
KW - Mobile Network Expansion
PY - 2022
N2 - Digital technologies can expand access to health services to underserved populations. This paper leverages mobile network expansion and survey data spanning two decades to study the impact of access to mobile phones on infant mortality in Africa. Using plausibly exogenous variations in lightning intensity and (sub)regional convergence in mobile penetration as instrumental variables for mobile network expansion, the analysis finds that mobile phones significantly reduce infant mortality. A 10 percentage point increase in mobile coverage is associated with a 0.45 percentage point reduction in infant mortality. Improvements in health knowledge and behavior and health care utilization appear to be plausible channels
CY - Washington, D.C
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
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