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A qualitative study of health system barriers to accessibility and utilization of maternal and newborn healthcare services in Ghana after user-fee abolition

BACKGROUND: To reduce financial barriers to access, and improve access to and use of skilled maternal and newborn healthcare services, the government of Ghana, in 2003, implemented a new maternal healthcare policy that provided free maternity care services in all public and mission healthcare facili...

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Autores principales:	Ganle, John Kuumuori, Parker, Michael, Fitzpatrick, Raymond, Otupiri, Easmon
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2014
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4307897/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25527872 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-014-0425-8

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