[afro-nets] User fees for health care... (5)

[Tom Oconnell <tsoconnell2@yahoo.com>]

User fees for health care... (5)
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Dear All,

The WHO has two recent documents on user fees for immunizations.
Essentially, the WHO Findings on the implementation of user fees
are:
1) User fees discourage people from seeking vaccination.
2) Public funding is the most equitable way to finance essential
    immunization.
3) Essential immunization services should be free of charge.

Here are the links to these two documents:
A) Practice and policies on user fees for immunization in devel-
oping countries (Adobe PDF file 32 pp. 170 kB):
http://www.who.int/vaccines-documents/DocsPDF01/www564.pdf

B) Fact Sheet on User fees for immunization in developing coun-
tries (Adobe PDF file 2 pp. 291 kB):
http://www.who.int/vaccines-documents/DocsPDF01/www563.pdf

Best,

Tom O'Connell
Consultant, health policy and planning
mailto:tsoconnell2@yahoo.com