'It makes me want to run away to Saudi Arabia': Management and implementation challenges for public financing reforms from a maternity ward perspective

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages

  Penn Kekana, Loveday ^a   Blaauw, Duane ^a   Schneider, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Financial reform; Health system reform; Maternal health services; Reproductive health; South Africa

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNITY WARD; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MIDWIFE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUAL HEALTH; SOUTH AFRICA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL;

FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDWIFERY; PUBLIC SECTOR; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 16544391523     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czh047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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