Title: Will patients be better off with a decentralised basic health service? : effectiveness of a decentralizing basic health service in Burkina Faso

Authors: Wal, Bertram van der

Place: The Hague

Publisher: SNV Netherlands development organisation

Year: 2007

Journal: SNV publications

Volume: H0702-10

PAGE: --

Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: health services, health policy, local government, health care delivery, decentralization in government, capacity building, social development, poverty, popular participation, burkina faso

Abstract: In Burkina Faso health services are being decentralized to municipalities after the local elections of 2006. Significant capacity strengthening, creation of new structures, and changing behaviour of the various stakeholders will be needed, or else the poorest patients risk paying the price.

URL: http://www.search4dev.nl/nl/record/283567

Document type: Portal