Does development assistance for health really displace government health spending? Reassessing the evidence

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Batniji, Rajaie ^a   Bendavid, Eran ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TECHNICAL AND DOMESTIC HEALTH CARE ASSISTANCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; RETRACTED ARTICLE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

EID: 84861555026     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001214     Document Type: Article

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