Making free public healthcare attractive: optimizing health equity funds in Cambodia

Making free public healthcare attractive: optimizing health equity funds in Cambodia

Abstract Background Following the introduction of user fees in Cambodia, Health Equity Funds (HEF) were developed to enable poor people access to public health services by paying public health providers on their behalf, including non-medical costs for hospitalised beneficiaries (HEFB). The national...

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Main Authors: Bart Jacobs, Ashish Bajracharya, Jyotirmoy Saha, Chhorvann Chhea, Ben Bellows, Steffen Flessa, Adelio Fernandes Antunes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
Subjects:
Access
Health financing
User fees
Healthcare utilization
Exemption mechanism
Poverty
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-018-0803-3

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