Health financing for the poor produces promising short-term effects on utilization and out-of-pocket expenditure: evidence from Vietnam
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Vietnam introduced the Health Care Fund for the Poor in 2002 to increase access to health care and reduce the financial burden of health expenditure faced by the poor and ethnic minorities. It is often argued that effects of financin...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-05-01
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| Series: | International Journal for Equity in Health |
| Online Access: | http://www.equityhealthj.com/content/8/1/20 |