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How to remove user fees for healthcare in five steps

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This guide describes five steps to follow to successfully remove user fees and maximise utilisation of health services. Using data from a range of countries and worked examples, it demonstrates how to estimate the effect of removing fees on utilisation and the resulting resource requirements. The guide also looks in detail at the case of Uganda, which removed user fees in 2001.

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Child headed households: a guide: ( A.N. Hoaeb;A.S. Iiyambula;L.Y. Steinitz / Yelula/U-Khai , 2008); It has become increasingly common in Namibian society for children to head their own households and take care of other relatives, due to the death or illness of their parents and guardians, or because...
How to remove user fees for healthcare in five steps: ( B. McPake;A. Schmidt;E. Araujo / Save the Children Fund , 2008); Evidence shows that user fees prevent people accessing health services, and that poor people are affected the most. This guide argues that it is both necessary and feasible to remove user fees in orde...
The determinants of and remedies for child and infant mortality in Kenya: ( J. Kabubo-Mariara;M. Karienyeh;F. Mwangi / Poverty and Economic Policy Network , 2008); Will Kenya achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on child survival by 2015? While child and infant mortality rates declined massively following Kenyan independence, progress since 19...
Investing in post conflict youth development: ( D. Mac-Ikemenjima / Academic Journals , 2008); Young people are susceptible to being used as perpetrators of conflicts and civil disorders, yet they remain the most vulnerable and the most affected in post conflict communities. However, young p...
Mobilising children and youth into their own child- and youth-led organisations: ( K. Madoerin / , 2008); This publication explores child- and youth-led organisations from many different angles, including, HIV and AIDS prevention, the critical role of adults within these organisations, and economic streng...
Why might rural households in Afghanistan send their children out to work?: ( P. Hunte;A. Hozyainova;C. Bassett / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit , 2008); This case study is the second in a three-part series examining household decision making on the use of child labour in urban and rural Afghanistan. In contrast to the other two studies in the series, ...
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Children in the Chhattisgarh conflict: ( Child Rights Information Network , 2008); This report updates information on the use of children by all parties to the conflict in India’s Chhattisgarh state, the harm they have suffered, and the adverse impact of the conflict on childr...
An assessment of job creation ventures in South Africa: ( A. Bernstien / Centre for Development and Enterprise, South Africa , 2008); Unemployment of young people aged between 15 and 24 is South Africa's primary policy challenge, and there have been various job creation schemes. This paper reports on a research project aimed at surv...
A Christian approach to support children affected by HIV/AIDS: ( J. Rankin / Strategies for Hope , 2008); Throughout the world, millions of children have suffered the loss of one, or both parents, and have to cope with grief and personal loss as well as being faced with tremendous vulnerability.&n...