Freeing up healthcare: a guide to removing user fees
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TextPublication details: London Save the Children 2008Description: viii,44pSubject(s): LOC classification: - W 84 .S28 2008
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Shows that user fees prevent people accessing health services, and that poor people are affected the most. The guide argues that it is both necessary and feasible to remove user fees in order to help poorer people access basic healthcare. It 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 (discontinuing the policy of cost-sharing), in 2001.
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