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Community financing of drugs in sub‐Saharan Africa
Author(s) -
Carrin Guy
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
the international journal of health planning and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-1751
pISSN - 0749-6753
DOI - 10.1002/hpm.4740020206
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , revenue , strengths and weaknesses , public finance , finance , health care financing , health care , business , public health , economic growth , public economics , political science , medicine , economics , nursing , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , law , programming language
‘Health for all by the year 2000’ is unlikely to be achieved in a number of Third World countries, including those in Sub‐Saharan Africa, if reliance is placed solely on the public health budget. This article looks at a range of alternative and additional sources of revenue and, in particular, at the scope for community financing of drugs. Developments in the region are reviewed for their insights into the strengths and weaknesses of each financing scheme; and, as a guide to shaping policies that make an appropriate choice of method of health care financing.