Evaluation of public subsidy for medical travel: does it protect against household impoverishment?
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Evaluation of public subsidy for medical travel: does it protect against household impoverishment?
BACKGROUND In resource-constrained health systems medical travel is a common alternative to seeking unavailable health services. This paper was motivated by the need to understand better the impact of such travel on households and health systems. METHODS We used primary data from 344 subsidized and 471 non-subsidized inbound medical travellers during June to December 2013 drawn from the North...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Equity in Health
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1475-9276
DOI: 10.1186/s12939-018-0726-z