Density versus quality in health care provision: Using household data to make budgetary choices in Ethiopia

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 425-448

  Collier, Paul ^a   Dercon, Stefan ^b   Mackinnon, John ^c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; HEALTH SERVICES; SERVICE PROVISION;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0036953564     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhf003     Document Type: Article

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