User fees plus quality equals improved access to health care
Results of a field experiment in Cameroon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4599301 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennie I Litvack (World Bank), Claude Bodart |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 369-383 |
| Publication date | 1993-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science & Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/0277-9536(93)90267-8 |
| PMID | 8356485 |
| OpenAlex | W2049283524 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 79 |
| References cited | 19 |
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Health care · Health facility · Health services · Political science · Population · Public health · Quality (philosophy · Revenue · User fee · Global Maternal and Child Health · Healthcare Systems and Reforms · Medicine · Nursing · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Finance · Health Policy
The Lessons of User Fee Experience in Africa
Health Outcomes and Health Care Financing in Cameroon
Distinguishing between Types of Data and Methods of Collecting Them
Rethinking Decentralization in Developing Countries
Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia
To Retain or Remove User Fees?
Poverty and Access to Health Care in Developing Countries
Detention of insolvent patients in Burundian hospitals
Access to health care for all? User fees plus a Health Equity Fund in Sotnikum, Cambodia
Changes in access to health care in China, 1989–1997
Costs and financing of improvements in the quality of maternal health services through the Bamako Initiative in Nigeria
The cost of coverage
The impact of alternative cost recovery schemes on access and equity in Niger
Paying for reproductive health services in Bangladesh
Using willingness to pay to investigate regressiveness of user fees in health facilities in Tanzania
The importance of gender in defining and improving quality of care
Perceived quality of care of primary health care services in Burkina Faso
The impact of financing and quality changes on health care demand in Niger
Cost recovery in Mauritania
Can innovative health financing policies increase access to MDG-related services? Evidence from Rwanda
Formalizing under-the-table payments to control out-of-pocket hospital expenditures in Cambodia
Effect of the Bamako-Initiative drug revolving fund on availability and rational use of essential drugs in primary health care facilities in south-east Nigeria
Private Health Care in Nigeria
Improving access to hospital care for the poor
Exemptions and waivers from cost sharing
Research report. Rationality of drug prescriptions in rural health centres in Burkino Faso
Revolving drug funds at front-line health facilities in Vientiane, Lao PDR
The fall and rise of cost sharing in Kenya
Effect of a drug supply and cost sharing system on prescribing and utilization
Risk, STD and HIV infection in Kampala
The Political Economy of Improving Health Care for the Poor in Rural Africa
Contextuality and data collection methods
Choice of Health-Care Service Utilization by the Elderly in Delta State of Nigeria
A stated preference approach to assessing health care-quality improvements in Palestine
Progressivity and horizontal equity in health care finance and delivery
“So they believe that if the baby is sick you must give drugs…” The importance of medicines in health-seeking behaviour for childhood illnesses in urban South Africa
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation on the Performance of Midwife in Community Health Center
Redistributive effects of health care out-of-pocket payments in Cameroon
Who benefits from increased service utilisation? Examining the distributional effects of payment for performance in Tanzania
Does community-based health insurance improve access to care in sub-Saharan Africa? A rapid review
Impact of user fees on maternal health service utilization and related health outcomes
Which Police Departments Want Reform? Barriers to Evidence-Based Policymaking
Association of anemia, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia with seasonality
Does Free Public Health Care Increase Utilization and Reduce Spending? Heterogeneity and Long-Term Effects
Assessing the welfare impacts of public spending
Utilization of Outpatient Care in Egypt and its Implications for the Role of Government in Health Care Provision
How Big is the Crowding-Out Effect of User Fees in the Rural Areas of Ethiopia? Implications for Equity and Resources Mobilization
Strategies for Achieving Health Financing Reform in Africa
Quality, cost and utilization of health services in developing countries. A longitudinal study in Zaïre
Active patients in rural African health care
Transcalar networks for policy transfer and implementation
Are Poverty and Social Goals for the 21st Century Attainable
L'exemption de paiement des soins au Burkina Faso, Mali et Niger
Seasonal variations of household costs of illness in Burkina Faso
Does health insurance coverage or improved quality protect better against out-of-pocket payments? Experimental evidence from the Philippines
Do new democracies deliver social welfare? Political regimes and health policy in Ghana and Cameroon
Kingdon en Afrique ? Théories de la mise sur agenda et le développement d’un programme d’assistance santé au Burkina Faso
Access to health care in developing countries
What does quality mean to lay people? Community perceptions of primary health care services in Guinea
Willingness to pay for child survival
Economic reform and health sector policy
The impact of privatization on access in Tanzania
The tradeoff between price and quality of services in the Philippines
Poverty, vulnerability, and provision of healthcare in Afghanistan
Willingness to pay and determinants of choice for improved malaria treatment in rural Nepal
Informal economic activities of public health workers in Uganda
Legacies of primary health care in an age of health sector reform
Quality of care and the demand for health services in Bamako, Mali
Health and human rights
The impact of direct and extra billing for medical services
Professionalism, patient satisfaction and quality of health care
Quality of services and demand for health care in Nigeria
Understanding the impact of eliminating user fees
User fees at a public hospital in Cambodia
Learning in Health Care
Effets des prix et des revenus sur le recours aux soins au Cameroun
Gender Dimensions of User Fees
Doing good, but looking bad? Local perceptions of two humanitarian organisations in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Pierre Bourdieu and transformative agency
Health Interview Surveys in Developing Countries
Charging for drugs in Africa
The influence of an abrupt price increase on health service utilization
Strengthening health services for MCH in Africa
Exempting the poor
From development to sustained crisis
The demand for adult outpatient services in the Bicol region of the Philippines
Self-care and the informal sale of drugs in South Cameroon
The efficiency of inefficiency
Health care decisions at the household level
A model of the demand for medical and health services in Peninsular Malaysia
Are people willing and able to pay for health services
Why we seek treatment here
Hausa Medicine
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