Our study design in the Philippines focuses on two demand side interventions to influence the health seeking behavior of individuals who are at risk of CVD. The interventions we will implement are the following:
1) The first intervention is the provision of information on CVD risk. The information we will provide to our respondents will be personalized according to several factors (e.g., age, gender, weight, height, blood pressure, smoking history) and will be calculated using the Globorisk algorithm.
2) The second intervention is the provision of transportation vouchers through lottery incentive to eligible individuals which they can exchange for cash in the rural health units (RHU) upon visit and completion of initial consultation. We hope these vouchers will give our respondents the incentives to go for CVD risk screening such as hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidemia. The vouchers will be financed from the project budget.
Research Team
Joseph J.Capuno
Dr. Joseph J. Capuno is Professor of Economics at the University of the Philippines School of Economics. He is currently serving as Undersecretary of the National Economic and Development Authority. He led the UPecon-HEFPA Study Team, a collaborative project involving 12 research teams in Europe and in Asia. The UPecon-HEFPA Project featured a randomized control trial of health insurance interventions, analyses on household exposure to and coping with shocks and on local government provision of health insurance coverage to the indigent population. Besides research in health economics and health policy, he has also done work on decentralization and governance.
Aleli D. Kraft
Dr. Aleli D. Kraft is Professor of Economics at the University of the Philippines School of Economics. She is currently a member of the Philippine Health Technology Assessment Council. Her professional experience include positions at the National Economic and Development Authority, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies and consulting work for health and international trade projects funded by the World Bank, USAID, and the ADB. She was the Principal Investigator for the Philippine Tuberculosis Initiatives for the Private Sector Project (PhilTIPS) which collected and analyzed primary data on private physician knowledge, attitude and practice of Tuberculosis Directly Observed Treatment, Short Course (TB-DOTS).
Owen O’Donnell
Swiss team member (Sri Lanka and Phillipines)
Owen O’Donnell is Professor of Applied Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Macedonia (on leave), a Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne, and a Research Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, Netspar and the CESR/Schaefer Center for the Study of Health Inequality. He has co-directed two European Union funded projects on equity in the finance and provision of health care in Asia (EQUITAP, HEFPA), is a co-author of Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data and has been a consultant to the World Bank, WHO and UNICEF. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics and Health Economics, and is co-organiser of the European Workshops on Econometrics and Health Economics. He obtained his doctorate from the University of York and has held visiting positions at the University of Lausanne and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a faculty appointment at the University of Kent.
Publications
2024
Kraft, A. D., Capuno, J. J., Calicdan, K. G. R., Cruz, G. T., & O’Donnell, O. (2024). Missed opportunities for hypertension screening of older people in the Philippines: cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative individual-level data. The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, 50, 101188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2024.101188
2023
Brindley, C., Van Ourti, T., Capuno, J., Kraft, A. D., Kudymowa, J., & O’Donnell, O. (2023). Risk factor contributions to socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular risk in the Philippines: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative survey data. BMC Public Health, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15517-x
2022
Baillon, A., Capuno, J., O’Donnell, O., Tan, C. A., & van Wilgenburg, K. (2022). Persistent effects of temporary incentives: Evidence from a nationwide health insurance experiment. Journal of Health Economics, 81, 102580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2021.102580
Baillon, A, Kraft, A, O’Donnell, O, & van Wilgenburg, K (2022). A behavioral decomposition of willingness to pay for health insurance. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 64(1), 43–87. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11166-022-09371-2
Baillon, A, Quimbo, S, O’Donnell, O, & Van Wilgenburg, K. (2022). Do time preferences explain low health insurance take-up? Journal of Risk and Insurance, 89(4), 951-983. https://doi.org/10.1111/jori.12395
Capuno, J. J., Kraft, A. D., Calicdan, K. G., & O’Donnell, O. (2022). Associations between health-related quality of life and measures of adiposity among Filipino adults. PLOS ONE, 17(10), e0275798–e0275798. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275798
2021
Capuno, J., Kraft, A., & O’Donnell, O. (2021). Effectiveness of clinic-based cardiovascular disease prevention: A randomized encouragement design experiment in the Philippines. Social Science & Medicine, 283, 114194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114194
Capuno, J. J., Kraft, A. D., & O’Donnell, O. (2021). Filling Potholes on the Road to Universal Health Coverage in the Philippines. Health Systems & Reform, 7(2), e1911473. https://doi.org/10.1080/23288604.2021.1911473
Non-Peer reviewed
UPecon Foundation. (2019) What is NECVaRE? [Brochure]. https://r4d-ncd.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/handouts_abstracts_final-08nov-1.pdf
UPecon Foundation. (2019) Who are the Novo Ecijanos at risk of developing CVDs? 2018 baseline results from the Nueva Ecija Cardiovascular Risk Experiment [Infographic] https://r4d-ncd.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/necvare_infographics_rev.pdf
PROJECT FUNDED BY
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