Title: Improving access for the poorest to public sector health services : insights from Kirivong operational health district in Cambodia

Authors: Jacobs, Bart and Price, Neil

Place: Oxford [etc.]

Publisher: Oxford university press [etc.]

Year: 2005

Journal: Health policy and planning

Volume: vol. 21, no. 1

PAGE: 27--39

Subject: Health and Poverty

Keywords: health services, health economics, poverty, community participation, cambodia

Abstract: This research has shown that engaging an existing community-based organization to manage an equity fund was effective. It improved financial access for the poorest to public health services and increased considerably the level of community participation in health.

URL: http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/21/1/27

Document type: Portal