Access to health services, food, and water during an active conflict: Evidence from Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT: Civil conflict began in Ethiopia in November 2020 and has reportedly caused major disruptions in access to health services, food, and related critical services, in addition to the direct impacts of the conflict on health and well-being. However, the population-level impacts of the conflict have not yet been systematically quantified. We analyze high frequency phone surveys conducted by the World Bank, which included measures of access to basic services, to estimate the impact of the first phase of the war (November 2020 to May 2021) on households in Tigray. After controlling for sample selection, a difference-in-differences approach is used to estimate causal effects of the conflict on population access to health services, food, and water and sanitation. Inverse probability weighting is us

SUBMITTER: Abay KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021679 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature