Recommended readings
- Benefit incidence analysis: how can it contribute to our understanding of health systems performance?
- ( M. Pearson / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre , 2002)
- Most analysis of national healthcare systems performance is based on national health accounts, which do not necessarily show who benefits from healthcare spending. Benefit Incidence Analysis (BIA) can...
- The equity impacts of community financing initiatives in Africa
- ( Lucy Gilson;Sally Lake / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2000)
- Access to healthcare is closely linked to health service financing in developing countries. The Bamako Initiative for community or user financing of healthcare in Africa is surrounded by debate over i...
- Cost Sharing: Towards Sustainable Health Care in Sub-Saharan Africa
- ( HNPFLASH , 1996)
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Short overview of World Bank experiences
In 1987, the World Bank recommended that the principle of cost recovery be incorporated into an agenda for financing publicly provided health services in de...
- Strategies for Pricing Publicly Provided Health Services
- ( P.J. Gertler; J.S. Hammer / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank , 1997)
- User fees are important in cofinancing health care but should not be the primary means of finance, and should not be applied uniformly - or the wealthy will benefit and the poor will suffer. Gertler a...
- Equity implications of health sector user fees in Tanzania: do we retain the user fee or set the user f(r)ee?
- ( L. Laterveer; M. Munga; P. Schwerzel / Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania , 2004)
- This paper, published by Research for Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), examines the effects of user fees and community-based insurance for health in Tanzania. It reports that user fee revenues were lower ...
- Towards greater access to justice in environmental disputes in Kenya: opportunities for intervention
- ( P. Kameri-Mbote / International Environmental Law Research Centre , 2005)
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This paper discusses recommendations for enhancing environmental justice in Kenya.
Concern for the environment has increased over the years since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environme...
- Assessment of the free health care provision system in Northern Ethiopia
- ( E. Engida; D. Haile Mariam / Ethiopian Journal of Health Development , 2002)
- This paper, published in the Ethiopian Journal of Health Development, describes systems of waivers and exemptions for health service user charges in the Bahir Dar area of northern Ethiopia. More than...
- Household coping strategies in response to the introduction of user charges of social services: a case study on health in Uganda
- ( H. Lucas; A. Nuwagaba / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 1999)
- This Institute of Development Studies (IDS) working paper examines the approaches to health care seeking and financing by households. The study examines two poor districts in rural Uganda using a ran...
- Health for some?: the effects of user fees in the Volta region of Ghana
- ( F. Nyonator; J. Kutzin / Health Policy and Planning , 1999)
- This paper, published in Health Policy and Planning, reports findings from a 1996 study of user fees and exemptions for health services in the Volta region of Ghana. The study found that facility man...
