Effect of removing user fees on attendance for curative and preventive primary health care services in rural South Africa
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...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The World Health Organization
2001-01-01
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| Series: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862001000700012 |