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Cost recovery in the health care sector : selected country studies in West Africa

Title: Cost recovery in the health care sector : selected country studies in West Africa / Ronald J. Vogel.
Author: Vogel, Ronald J.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©1988.

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xi, 192 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.

Summary

Despite the improvements in health achieved in Sub-Saharan Africa over the last twenty years, health status in the region remains the worst in the world. This study, in an effort to describe the status of health financing in West Africa, examines the health financing experience in Senegal, Mali, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana. In all four countries the examination focuses principally on cost-recovery, resource allocation issues and the status of health insurance and other risk spreading mechanisms. Recommendations which flow from the study findings include: (i) some financial autonomy, through cost-recovery, should accompany programs to decentralize government health care systems; (ii) as alluded to above, and as illustrated in the experiences of the church missions, cost-recovery must be preceded by improvement in the perceived quality of services; and (iii) experience in the countries studied reveals that to ensure equitable and efficient allocation of services, cost-recovery programs should be phased, beginning first with charges for drugs and tertiary level care.

Series Statement

World Bank technical paper, 0253-7494 ; no. 82

Uniform Title

World Bank technical paper ; no. 82.

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Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 189-192.

ISBN

0821310518
9780821310519

LCCN

88012093

OCLC

ocm17841157
17841157
SCSB-1719919

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library