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The impact of user fees on access to health services in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, April 2011
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6 policy sources
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Title
The impact of user fees on access to health services in low‐ and middle‐income countries
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, April 2011
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd009094
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Authors

Mylene Lagarde, Natasha Palmer

Abstract

Following an international push for financing reforms, many low- and middle-income countries introduced user fees to raise additional revenue for health systems. User fees are charges levied at the point of use and are supposed to help reduce 'frivolous' consumption of health services, increase quality of services available and, as a result, increase utilisation of services.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Belgium 2 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Ethiopia 1 <1%
Singapore 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 497 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 112 22%
Researcher 75 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 40 8%
Student > Bachelor 39 8%
Other 30 6%
Other 86 17%
Unknown 128 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 170 33%
Social Sciences 55 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 49 10%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 33 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 2%
Other 48 9%
Unknown 144 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 35. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 December 2023.
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#1,147,913
of 25,457,297 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#2,343
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#4,371
of 120,465 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#6
of 96 outputs
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