Effect of removing user fees on attendance for curative and preventive primary health care services in rural South Africa

• Main Authors: Wilkinson David (Author), Gouws Eleanor (Author), Sach Marlene (Author), Karim Salim S. Abdool (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: The World Health Organization, 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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User fees are used to recover costs and discourage unnecessary attendance at primary care clinics in many developing countries. In South Africa, user fees for children aged under 6 years and pregnant women were removed in 1994, and in 1997 all user fees at all primary health care clinics were abolis...