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Is the process for selecting indigents to receive free care in Burkina Faso equitable?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, November 2014
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Title
Is the process for selecting indigents to receive free care in Burkina Faso equitable?
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BMC Public Health, November 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1158
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Authors

Nicole Atchessi, Valéry Ridde, Maria-Victoria Zunzunégui

Abstract

In Burkina Faso, patients are required to pay for healthcare. This constitutes a barrier to access for indigents, who are the most disadvantaged. User fee exemption systems have been created to facilitate their access. A community-based initiative was thus implemented in a rural region of Burkina Faso to select the worst-off and exempt them from user fees. The final selection was not based on pre-defined criteria, but rather on community members' tacit knowledge of the villagers. The objective of this study was to analyze the equitable nature of this community-based selection process.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
India 3 4%
Unknown 68 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 15%
Researcher 9 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 10%
Student > Bachelor 7 10%
Librarian 4 6%
Other 11 15%
Unknown 22 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 10 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 14%
Social Sciences 8 11%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 6%
Other 8 11%
Unknown 26 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 November 2014.
All research outputs
#14,789,079
of 22,769,322 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#10,879
of 14,840 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#145,445
of 262,838 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#203
of 270 outputs
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