Street-level workers’ criteria for identifying indigents to be exempted from user fees in Burkina Faso
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A community-based targeting approach to exempt the worst-off from user fees in Burkina Faso.
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عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Medicine & International Health
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1360-2276
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2012.02991.x