BACKGROUND To contend with the risk of exclusion created by user fees, those implementing the Bamako Initiative (BI) were asked to organise exemption schemes for the indigent. But those exemption schemes were never put in place in Africa due to difficulties identifying the indigent. An action research was implemented to test the hypothesis that a community-based process for selecting beneficiar...

OBJECTIVE To estimate how many child deaths might be prevented if user fees were removed in 20 African countries DESIGN Simulation model combining evidence on key health interventions' impacts on reducing child mortality with analysis of the effect of fee abolition on access to healthcare services. RESULTS Elimination of user fees could prevent approximately 233,000 (estimate range 153,000-...

BACKGROUND Although many developing countries have developed user fee exemption policies to move towards universal health coverage as a priority, very few studies have attempted to measure the quality of care. The present paper aims at assessing whether women's satisfaction with delivery care is maintained with a total fee exemption in Burkina Faso. METHODS A quasi-experimental design with bo...

The challenge for many media websites is converting users from free to fee. In order to encourage user participation and engagement with the websites many of them have provided consumers with a virtual community wherein the user can create an on-site identity, make friends, and interact with other consumers. We study the interplay between users’ functional and social behavior on media sites and...

In a subscription-based remote service, a user is charged a flat fee for a period of time independent of the actual number of times the service is requested. The main concern of the service manager is to make sure that only customers that have paid the fee for the current period are granted access to the service. To do this, the service manager might give each user a username and a password to ...

The Audio Interactive Tutor (Tait) is an interactive audio/oral computer-aided study device. It is most easily understood in comparison to the familiar notion of self-study audio tapes, which are non-interactive audio study devices. A selfstudy tape presents information and typically solicits responses from the user; however, it continues with a set pattern of instruction no matter what the use...