Measuring Equity in Health Care Financing : Reflections on (and Alternatives to) the World Health Organization's Fairness of Financing Index
In its latest World Health Report, The World Health Organization (WHO) argues that a key dimension of a health system's performance is the fairness of its financing system. The report discusses how policymakers can improve this aspect of performance, proposes an index of fairness, discusses how...
Main Author: | Wagstaff, Adam |
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Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
Language: | en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19962 |
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