To Retain or Remove User Fees?
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Applied Health Economics and Health Policy
- Vol. 5 (3) , 137-153
- https://doi.org/10.2165/00148365-200605030-00001
Abstract
Many low- and middle-income countries continue to search for better ways of financing their health systems. Common to many of these systems are problems of inadequate resource mobilisation, as well...Keywords
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