Title: Public spending on health care in Africa : do the poor benefit?

Authors: Castro-Leal, F.

Place: Geneva

Publisher: World health organization (WHO)

Year: 2000

Journal: Bulletin of the World health organization

Volume: vol. 78, no. 1

PAGE: 66--74

Subject: Health and Poverty

Keywords: health economics, health care delivery, poverty, africa

Abstract: This paper examines public spending on curative health care in serval African countries and finds that this spending favours mostly the better-off rather than the poor. It concludes that this targeting problem cannot be solved by adjusting the subsidy allocations.

URL: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPAH/Resources/Publications/Seminars/bu0201.pdf

Document type: Portal