Title: No cash, no care : how \"user fees\" endanger health : an MSF briefing paper on financial barriers to healthcare

Place: Brussels

Publisher: Médecins sans frontières (MSF)

Year: 2008

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Subject: Health and Poverty

Keywords: health care delivery, health economics, public health

Abstract: This document brings together lessons learnt about how financial barriers affect patients’ access to public health care in low-income countries. It documents how patient fees, or “user fees”, exclude a substantial proportion of those most in need from medical care and exacerbate household poverty.

URL: http://www.msf.org/source/access/2008/NocashNocareMSFapril2008.pdf

Document type: Portal