This study evaluates the health impacts of a volunteer intervention addressing health worker shortage in remote mountainous communities of Vietnam. It estimates the average treatment effect on the treated using propensity score matching methods with two stage sample data. The study found statistical evidence of improved knowledge of diarrhoeal disease prevention in the treated communities, which is an important factor of diarrhoea reduction in the long term. It did not confirm the impacts of two year volunteer intervention on the health seeking behaviour related to birth giving and hygienic behaviour in the treated households.
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