In March 2016, the newly elected government of Burkina Faso decided on a major change in health financing policy: it abolished direct payment for healthcare for women and children under five. Unlike other countries in Africa, this decision took a long time, given that the first pilot projects...
The policy known as the "Strategy and Action Plan for Integrated Service on Reproductive Maternal, Newborn and Child Health," focuses on pregnant women and their access to more healthcare services at hospitals and dispensaries across the country and also provides free-of-charge care to children, ...
health services administration & managementUSER FEE EXEMPTIONQUALITYIMPLEMENTATIONATTENDANCEMORTALITYIMPACTObjectivesThis study aimed to analyse, at national level, the effects of the free healthcare policy for children on the use of health services by children under five in Burkina Faso. We hypothesised ...
Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to improve child health. Ireland, the only country in the European Union without universal access to primary care, introduced general practitioner (GP) care at no charge for children aged under six in 2015. This paper aims to evaluate the impact of this po...
Child Health Unit 被引量: 69发表: 1997年 Examination of attendance patterns before and after introduction of South Africa's policy of free health care for children aged under 6 years and pregnant ... Centre for Epidemiological Research in Southern Africa, Medical Research Council, Hlabisa, ...
Free for Children? Patient Cost-Sharing and Healthcare UtilizationThis study exploits over 5,000 variations in subsidy generosity across ages and municipalities in Japan to examine how children respond to healthcare prices. WeIizuka, Toshiaki
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This is particularly important for children, the jobless and older people who lack money to afford expensive private medical care. A病人自己付费B政府不用花这么多钱C减轻taxpayers的负担,钱可以用来发展科技解释(A-B...
“Families are just grateful for the opportunity to have free child care on this day,” she said. “I think it’s just viewed as a really positive initiative for the community in a really divisive time. Advertisement The centers have capacity for 120 children, according to Wolff. ...