Biospecimen User Fees: Global Feedback on a Calculator Tool

Global Health Systems: Pricing and User Fees

This chapter is concerned with the issue of user fees (or user charges) for public health services. We discuss the implications of user fees for cost-e¤ectiveness, allocative e¢ ciency, equity, progressivity of public health care spending, and quality of service. Each of these is a desirable end in itself, and so each is an important factor in the optimal pricing decision. They are not always c...

No user fees, but perhaps user fees.

Reflections on a WYFIWIF Tool for Eliciting User Feedback

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). Workshop on Tactile User Experience Evaluation Methods at CHI 2014 Abstract Designing haptic phenomena is increasingly important but difficult. Eliciting user feedback is particularly challenging. Direct means of sharing haptic sensations are limited, and the absence of unifying conceptual models for working with haptic sensations further restricts comm...

Abolishing User Fees in Africa

In its 2008 annual report, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries to " resist the temptation to rely on user fees " [1, p. 26]. Indeed, the consensus in the scientific community is that user fees have harmful effects on health care use and household budgets, especially for the poorest [2]. Still, as the WHO observes, " …most of the world's health-care systems continue to rely on th...

Global health actors no longer in favor of user fees: a documentary study

BACKGROUND Since the advent of health user fees in low- and middle-income countries in the 1980s, the discourse of global health actors (GHAs) has changed to the disadvantage of this type of healthcare financing mechanism. The aim of the study was to identify and analyze the stance of GHAs in the debate on user fees. METHODS We conducted documentary research using public documents published b...