This brief includes the following headings: a public expenditure tracking study shows that when public funds reach health centers, they make a positive difference in people's access to health care; leakage increases the price health centers charge patients for drugs; the number of patients treated could have doubled without leakage; leakage is crippling the public health delivery system; income inequalities also translate into health service inequalities; notes; and further reading.
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Document Date
2008/08/01
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Document Type
Brief
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Report Number
53914
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Volume No
1
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1
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Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
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Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Doc Name
Public health in Chad : connecting spending and results
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Keywords
public fund;average life expectancy at birth;access to basic health service;access to health care;public expenditure;public health;public information campaign;public expenditure tracking;public health center;incidence of malaria;budget for health;health system performance;income inequality;health facility;public resource;rural area;health output;Public Facilities;administrative level;public provider;private provider;outward flow;allocation rule;price behavior;Public Services;health indicator;negative relationship;health clinic;health clinics;public support;budget resource;sanitary districts;national health;primary health;social indicator;public official;alternative provider;school grant;
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Public health in Chad : connecting spending and results (English). Research at the World Bank : a brief from the Development Research Gro Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/260691468236105372/Public-health-in-Chad-connecting-spending-and-results