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Title: | What happens to welfare when user fees finance health care? The impact gender on policy outcomes: theory and evidence from Zimbabwe |
Author: | Hanmer, Lucia |
Year: | 1994 |
Issue: | 180 |
Pages: | 33 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Working papers, General series (ISSN 0921-0210) |
City of publisher: | The Hague |
Publisher: | Institute of Social Studies |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Zimbabwe |
Subject: | health financing |
External link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1765/18880 |
Abstract: | Given the present adverse macroeconomic environment in sub-Saharan Africa, the production and distribution of social services is a matter of increasing importance. This paper focuses on one specific social service, health care provision. It reviews the evidence on health expenditures during the 1980s and early 1990s and looks at policy responses to chronic funding difficulties; examines how gender may influence the outcome of implementing a commonly adopted policy, namely that of asking users to pay for health services; and looks at Zimbabwe's experience with user charges and proposes a simple theoretical framework that captures key aspects of the household's response to the increased cost of health care. |