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Health financing for the poor produces promising short-term effects on utilization and out-of-pocket expenditure: evidence from Vietnam

BACKGROUND: Vietnam introduced the Health Care Fund for the Poor in 2002 to increase access to health care and reduce the financial burden of health expenditure faced by the poor and ethnic minorities. It is often argued that effects of financing reforms take a long time to materialize. This study e...

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Autores principales: Axelson, Henrik, Bales, Sarah, Minh, Pham Duc, Ekman, Björn, Gerdtham, Ulf-G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2694203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19473518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-8-20