Implementation of Ghana's health user fee policy and the exemption of the poor: Problems and prospects

Etude de la Population Africaine

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. A, 2004, Pages 285-302

  Badasu, Delali Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

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