Crowding out: are relations between international health aid and government health funding too complex to be captured in averages only?

The Lancet

Volumn 375, Issue 9723, 2010, Pages 1403-1405

  Ooms, Gorik ^a   Decoster, Kristof ^a   Miti, Katabaro ^a,b   Rens, Sabine ^c   Van Leemput, Luc ^a   Vermeiren, Peter ^a   Van Damme, Wim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

EID: 77950865333     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60207-3     Document Type: Note

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