نتایج جستجو برای: user fees
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UNLABELLED BACKGROUND User fees for primary care services were removed in rural districts in Zambia in 2006. Experience from other countries has suggested that health workers play a key role in determining the success of a fee removal policy, but also find the implementation of such a policy challenging. The policy was introduced against a backdrop of a major shortage in qualified health sta...
BACKGROUND Healthcare user fees present an important barrier for accessing services for the poorest (indigents) in Burkina Faso and selective removal of fees has been incorporated in national healthcare planning. However, establishing fair, effective and sustainable mechanisms for the removal of user fees presents important challenges. A participatory action-research project was conducted in Ou...
Like many other African countries, Ghana has been implementing a cost-sharing policy in its health sector since the 1990s. The adoption of this policy and the consequent charging of user fees for health services was due to stagnating economies and associated budgetary constraints and increasing gaps between supply and demand for basic social services that have been characteristic of African cou...
Background In 2009, the Benin government introduced a user fee exemption policy for caesarean sections. We analyse this policy with regard to how the existing ideas and institutions related to user fees influenced key steps of the policy cycle and draw lessons that could inform the policy dialogue for universal health coverage in the West African region. Methods Following the policy stages mo...
Economic crisis generally increases firms’ bankruptcy and consequently audit risk. Hence, auditors are more likely to respond to this increased risk through increasing audit fees. However, in the lack of adequate empirical and theoretical evidence, the role of this macro-economic variable, economic crisis, is not clearly demonstrated on audit fees. Therefore, this study investigates the role of...
User fee removal has been put forward as an approach to increasing priority health service utilization, reducing impoverishment, and ultimately reducing maternal and neonatal mortality. However, user fees are a source of facility revenue in many low-income countries, often used for purchasing drugs and supplies and paying incentives to health workers. This paper reviews evidence on the effects ...
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