Ten best resources for conducting financing and benefit incidence analysis in resource-poor settings

Virginia Wiseman1, Augustine Asante2, Jennifer Price2

  • 1School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Samuels Bldg, Kensington Campus, New South Wales 2052, Australia, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Centre for Health Information, Policy and Systems Research, Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji Islands, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universudade Nacional Timor-Leste, Díli, Timor-Leste, George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Samuels Bldg, Kensington Campus, New South Wales 2052, Australia, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Centre for Health Information, Policy and Systems Research, Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji Islands, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universudade Nacional Timor-Leste, Díli, Timor-Leste, George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Virginia.Wiseman@lshtm.ac.uk.

Health Policy and Planning
|September 27, 2014
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