Equity in health care in Namibia: developing a needs-based resource allocation formula using principal components analysis
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Equity in health care in Namibia: developing a needs-based resource allocation formula using principal components analysis
BACKGROUND The pace of redressing inequities in the distribution of scarce health care resources in Namibia has been slow. This is due primarily to adherence to the historical incrementalist type of budgeting that has been used to allocate resources. Those regions with high levels of deprivation and relatively greater need for health care resources have been getting less than their fair share. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Equity in Health
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1475-9276
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-6-3