This study evaluates the impact of Sierra Leone’s 2010 Free Health Care Initiative (FHCI). It uses two nationally representative surveys to identify the impact of the policy on utilisation of maternal care services by pregnant women and recent mothers as well as the impact on curative health...

This study evaluates the impact of Sierra Leone's 2010 Free Health Care Initiative (FHCI). It uses two nationally representative surveys to identify the impact of the policy on utilisation of maternal care services by pregnant women and recent mothers as well as the impact on curative health...

This paper investigates the role of demand-side barriers in impeding access to the use of health services. Demand-side barriers are defined as determinants of use of health care that are not dependent on service delivery or price or direct price of those services. They include distance,...

Objectives Demand side financing (DSF) mechanisms transfer purchasing power to specified groups for defined goods and services in order to increase access to specified services. This is an important innovation in health care systems where access remains poor despite substantial subsidies towards...

Although maternal health outcomes have improved considerably in Nepal, continued low levels of skilled attendance and unequal access to safe emergency obstetric care continues to be central policy concern. The financial costs of delivery exacerbated are thought to continue to represent a major...

Regulation is traditionally seen as the use of bureaucratic and administrative controls by government to correct market failure. Yet traditional methods such as licensing and certification frequently fail to control behaviour because of the limited resources available to government in low- and...