Is paying for health care culturally acceptable in sub-Sahara Africa? Money and tradition
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Is paying for health care culturally acceptable in Sub-Sahara Africa? Money and tradition.
In 1987 UNICEF launched the so-called Bamako Initiative, which has as its main objective to improve the sustainability of primary health care in Africa by making people pay for it. The question is raised whether paying for health care is culturally acceptable in African communities. The author argues that 'money' is not a new phenomenon in Africa and that paying for goods and services does not ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(92)90194-u