Abolishing User Fees in Africa
Open Access
- 6 January 2009
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 6 (1) , e1000008
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000008
Abstract
Valéry Ridde and Slim Haddad discuss a new trial in Ghana in which households were randomized into a pre-payment scheme allowing free primary care or to a control group who paid user fees for health care.Keywords
This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
- Effect of Removing Direct Payment for Health Care on Utilisation and Health Outcomes in Ghanaian Children: A Randomised Controlled TrialPLoS Medicine, 2009
- Step-wedge cluster-randomised community-based trials: An application to the study of the impact of community health insuranceHealth Research Policy and Systems, 2008
- “The problem of the worst-off is dealt with after all other issues”: The equity and health policy implementation gap in Burkina FasoSocial Science & Medicine, 2008
- Solidarity or Financial SustainabilityCanadian Journal of Public Health, 2007
- Working practices and incomes of health workers: evidence from an evaluation of a delivery fee exemption scheme in GhanaHuman Resources for Health, 2007
- To Retain or Remove User Fees?Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 2006
- Abolition of cost-sharing is pro-poor: evidence from UgandaHealth Policy and Planning, 2005
- Editorial: Community health insurance (CHI) in sub‐Saharan Africa: researching the contextTropical Medicine & International Health, 2004
- Poverty and health sector inequalities.2002
- Equity and health sector reforms: can low-income countries escape the medical poverty trap?The Lancet, 2001