The effect of wealth status on care seeking and health expenditures in Afghanistan

Health Policy & Planning volume 24 number 1 January 2009 pp. 1–17 The acknowledgements section for this article should have read: “This study was funded by a contract with the Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Health Management Research. Important contributions to the collection, processing and analysis of data were provided by team members, including Aneesa Arur, Stan Becker, Vikas Dwivedi, Anbrasi Edward, SD Gupta, Shivam Gupta, Dr Haseeb, Dr Ismail, Maureen Mayhew, Ayan Ahmed Noor, Melissa Opryszko, John Safapour, N K Sharma, Lakhwinder P Singh, Sandhya Sundaram, Kavitha Viswanathan, Earl Wall and other staff. We also thank the 350 staff who participated in data collection in the first annual NHSPA survey. The authors also express their appreciation for the financial support (Grant # H050474) provided by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) for the Future Health Systems research programme consortium. This document is an output partly funded from a project financed by DFID for the benefit of developing countries. The views expressed are not necessarily those of DFID.” The corresponding author would like to apologize for this error.

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