This case-based brief illustrates how one hospital was able to introduce policy and system changes to reduce corruption and increase responsible stewardship of user fee revenues for the public good. Although typically user fees generate no more than 5-10% of recurrent costs in health facilities1, these small, continuously occurring cash transactions provide a temptation to collection staff, as ...

User charges in public health facilities are aimed at improving efficiency and quality of health services. In Africa, evidence about their effect on patient attendance and community health-seeking behaviour are mixed. This paper reports a study of the effect of user charges on revenue collection, quality of services and people's health-seeking behaviour in relation to malaria in Korogwe distric...

This paper reports the findings of a study on the debate of free versus fee based library services in Pakistan. The review of literature revealed that no formal survey on this topic has been carried out before. A questionnaire based survey of selected experts in the field of library and information science from various cities was conducted. Their interviews were also audio-recorded. The library...

The Delaware Fuzzy Expert Exploration Tool (FEE Tool) is an expert system designed to reduce exploration risk for the Lower Brushy Canyon formation of the Delaware Basin. The components of the Delaware FEE Tool include a knowledge base containing sets of rules developed through expert interviews, an answer base of numerical inputs to these rules, an inference engine that uses fuzzy logic to eva...

This deliverable is performed within the scope of the SURFnet Research on Networking (RoN) project. These deliverables are partly written by students of the University of Twente.

Decentralization is commonly championed as a means for achieving equity. To date, however, there has been little discussion of the mechanisms underlying this relationship, and several of the few empirical investigations that have addressed the topic have found the converse; that decentralization has exacerbated inequalities. This article examines the performance and equity in financing of the H...

Purpose This study investigates the effect of user fees on access and waiting time in Nigeria. For access, both preventive curative care; at public healthcare facilities were examined. User are vital for fiscal sustainability provision most African economies. Its imposition could debar by poor while its removal can reduce quality care induce longer time. Design/methodology/approach The wave 3 N...

Over-the-counter products in line for user fee program.