The impact of community development efforts on rural health services is evaluated by an
analytical procedure which pools cross-sectional and time series data, thus taking
advantage of both inter-community and inter-temporal variation. Scales of institutional
complexity were developed at six time points. To assess the impact of community
development efforts, parameters relating health sector growth or decline to existence and
type of community development program were obtained using estimation procedures for
pooled cross-sectional and time series data. The results indicate that thefull programs did
have the predicted positive impact on rural health services. Conversely, the special
programs demonstrated no impact.
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