Health worker perspectives on user fee removal in Zambia

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Carasso, Barbara S ^a   Lagarde, Mylene ^a   Cheelo, Caesar ^b   Chansa, Collins ^c   Palmer, Natasha ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Free care; Health financing; Human resources; Motivation; User fees; Zambia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867901238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-10-40     Document Type: Article

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