user fees
Appropriateness of User Fees for Reproductive Health in Malawi
... on user numbers, but this was attributed to extra efforts by the providers to retain client numbers (Lewis, ...modest fees tend not to lower utilisation (Lewis 1986; Foreit and Levine ...by user ...
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Reducing user fees for primary health care in Kenya: Policy on paper or policy in practice?
... Reducing user fees for primary health care and providing free malaria treatment in all govern- ment facilities in Kenya were some of the interventions considered in the study as having the potential to ...
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User fees impact access to healthcare for female children in rural Zambia
... Trends suggest female children may be less likely to present for care even before user fees are imposed (p=0.25). Among all diagnoses, only gastrointestinal were statistically different in males (14.4%) and ...
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User fees in private non-for-profit hospitals in Uganda: a survey and intervention for equity
... institution, user fees have been used in private non-for-profit (PNFP) hospitals as a way to finance provi- sion of ...of user fees, their predictability for users, their effects on the use of ...
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From institutionalization of user fees to their abolition in West Africa: a story of pilot projects and public policies
... by user fees, and the lack of consideration for equity were never actually taken into account when public cost-recovery policies were being established and ...of user fees, access to free care ...
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Migrating from user fees to social health insurance: exploring the prospects and challenges for hospital management
... Reimbursement may appear erratic but the scheme has greatly improved the hospitals finances. This is com- prehensible given that hospitals are better off receiving bulk sum of money during reimbursement than in bits as ...
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Maintaining quality of health services after abolition of user fees: A Uganda case study
... use fees implied that health workers had resources available for use when required, as opposed to the public resources that have stringent guidelines for spending and accountability attached to ...of user ...
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Poverty, user fees and ability to pay for health care for children with suspected dengue in rural Cambodia
... Although user fees only partially met the shortfall between salaries and living costs, they were important to health ...2003 fees were not reimbursed either to the HCs or the referral hospital in ...
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Transversal analysis of public policies on user fees exemptions in six West African countries
... general trend regarding compensation mechanisms for health centres that exempt certain services from user fees. We therefore find at least four different ways of functioning: i) provision of inputs (ACT ...
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A process evaluation of user fees abolition for pregnant women and children under five years in two districts in Niger (West Africa)
... Among health workers, opposition to free services was more widespread, although not total. They would have preferred to see drugs made available at lower prices and more accessible, rather than abolishing payment alto- ...
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Global health actors no longer in favor of user fees: a documentary study
... of user fee exemption policies in some ...implement user fee exemption ...on user fees, as a way to understand global governance and how it influences public health pol- icies in ...
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Uptake of evidence in policy development: the case of user fees for health care in public health facilities in Uganda
... abolish user fees in light of available evidence varied as shown in Figure 2 but, for different ...abolishing user fees due to their strong considerations for the ...showing user ...
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User Fees for the Elderly: Medicare Solution or Dissolution?
... Finally, user fees could provide individuals with an incentive to maintain desirable, health-conscious ...of user fee costs not incurred). On this basis, user fees would encourage ...
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User fees, equity and the benefits of public outdoor recreation services
... Implementing user fees for state owned recreation areas would shift the financial burden from all taxpayers to the actual ...or user fees) affect the distribution of net benefits of public ...
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Targeting accuracy and impact of a community-identified waiver card scheme for primary care user fees in Afghanistan
... User fees and other types of cost sharing can decrease access to health care, particularly for poorer households, leading to under-utilization of beneficial services such as immunization ...
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Sustainable financing for ocean and coastal management in Jamaica: The potential for revenues from tourist user fees
... To determine the feasibility of implementing an environmental user fees would require the relevant policy makers to take the following actions. The first step would be to identify the costs of ocean and ...
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Impact of out of pocket payments on financial risk protection indicators in a setting with no user fees: the case of Mauritius
... Government Health Expenditure; HBS: Household Budget Survey; OOP: Out of Pocket Payments; PvtHE: Private Health Expenditure; SDG: Sustainable Development Goal; THE: Total Expenditure on [r] ...
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User fees across ecosystem boundaries : are SCUBA divers willing to pay for terrestrial biodiversity conservation?
... positive for each reef attribute in the multinomial logit and random parameter logit models,.. with higher estimates in the multinomial logit model.[r] ...
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A REVIEW OF INFLUENCE OF THE GENERIC DRUG USER FEES ACT UPON THE EXPORT FROM THE INDIAN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
... of the United States continues to arrive from Spain and Italy with sizable increases in the shares held by the industry of India. Nevertheless, the small firms who produce only the handful API will identify it as more ...
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Strategy for determining vaccination user fees and locations : a case study in rural China
... campaigns take place in multiple townships throughout the county or province. Should the model be developed for every township by collecting all pertinent or required data from each township? Or can the model results ...
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