Moving from ideas to action - Developing health financing systems towards universal coverage in Africa

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Musango, Laurent ^a   Orem, Juliet Nabyonga ^b   Elovainio, Riku ^c   Kirigia, Joses ^a  

^a Health Systems and Services Cluster   (Congo)

^b Health Systems and Services Cluster   (Uganda)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Africa; Health financing; Ministry of finance; Ministry of health; Panel discussion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICAN; ARTICLE; BUDGET; DRIVER; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FINANCE; FUNDING; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; SYNTHESIS; VISION;

EID: 85040684046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-698X-12-30     Document Type: Article

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