An experiment with community health funds in Afghanistan

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 301-311

  Rao, Krishna D ^a,b   Waters, Hugh ^a   Steinhardt, Laura ^a   Alam, Sahibullah ^c   Hansen, Peter ^a   Naeem, Ahmad Jan ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Ministry of Public Health   (Afghanistan)

Author keywords

community financing; Community based health insurance; health financing

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFGHANISTAN; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DATA COLLECTION; FINANCING, ORGANIZED; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 69049084167     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czp018     Document Type: Article

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