Title |
Low coverage but few inclusion errors in Burkina Faso: a community-based targeting approach to exempt the indigent from user fees
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Published in |
BMC Public Health, October 2010
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-10-631 |
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Authors |
Valéry Ridde, Slim Haddad, Béatrice Nikiema, Moctar Ouedraogo, Yamba Kafando, Abel Bicaba |
Abstract |
User fees were generalized in Burkina Faso in the 1990s. At the time of their implementation, it was envisioned that measures would be instituted to exempt the poor from paying these fees. However, in practice, the identification of indigents is ineffective, and so they do not have access to care. Thus, a community-based process for selecting indigents for user fees exemption was tested in a district. In each of the 124 villages in the catchment areas of ten health centres, village committees proposed lists of indigents that were then validated by the health centres' management committees. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of this community-based selection. |
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