Blog BanRep: Medical Skills and Health Outcomes in Colombia
This entry highlights that physicians with higher medical skills add significantly more value to the health of newborns, regardless of their context.
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An understudied aspect of healthcare systems is the impact of the quality of the medical staff on the health performance of system users. A research paper in which Christian Posso (senior economist at Banco de la República) participated, and whose results were recently published in the series Working Papers on Economics, particularly studies the impact of physicians' skills on people's health in Colombia. Specifically, the study assesses the effect of differences in professional skills of physicians with similar training on the health of newborn babies under their care.
