General budget support: Has it benefited the health sector?

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1440-1451

  Fernandes Antunes, Adelio ^a   Xu, Ke ^b   James, Chris D ^c   Saksena, Priyanka ^b   Van De Maele, Nathalie ^b   Carrin, Guy ^d   Evans, David B ^b  

^a Improving Maternal and Newborn Care Project   (Cambodia)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c Oxford Policy Management   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

aid effectiveness; fungibility; general budget support; health system financing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUDGET; EUROPEAN UNION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FUNDING; GENERAL BUDGET SUPPORT; GOVERNMENT; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INCOME; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALE UP; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AID EFFECTIVENESS; FUNGIBILITY; GENERAL BUDGET SUPPORT; HEALTH SYSTEM FINANCING;

BUDGETS; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 84887233764     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.2895     Document Type: Article

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