Santé
Le secteur Santé de J-PAL a pour objectif d’encourager les comportements favorables à la santé, d’améliorer la prestation de services de soins de santé et de mieux comprendre le rôle que peut avoir la santé dans la réduction de la pauvreté.
Policy Insight
Policy insight
The impact of price on take-up and use of preventive health products
Charging fees for many key preventive health products dramatically reduces take-up. Preventive health products distributed for free are generally put to good use.
Evaluation
Evaluation
The Impact of Training Informal Healthcare Providers in India
Informal healthcare workers with little to no training provide more than 70 percent of all primary care in rural India. In this study, researchers evaluated the impact of a nine-month training...
News
In the news
Strategies to Combat the Opioid Epidemic: What We Know and Where to Go from Here
As part of an engagement with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, J-PAL North America created a policy brief summarizing the evidence for select interventions to treat opioid use disorders and related harms. Read about what works and opportunities for further research here.
Person
Person
Rebecca Dizon-Ross
Rebecca Dizon-Ross is an Associate Professor of Economics and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
