Low enrolment in Ugandan Community Health Insurance Schemes: Underlying causes and policy implications

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Basaza, Robert ^a,b   Criel, Bart ^b   Van Der Stuyft, Patrick ^b  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; COMMUNITY; COMPREHENSION; EVALUATION; FEE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INTERVIEW; LAW; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH; SANITATION; TRUST; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY CARE; CONSUMER; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; UGANDA; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEES AND CHARGES; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; POLICY MAKING; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRUST; UGANDA;

EID: 34547747953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-7-105     Document Type: Article

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