User fees and maternity services in Ethiopia

No user fees, but perhaps user fees.

Pricing Municipal Services: The Economics of User Fees

User fees for municipal services may generate revenue for municipalities and their utility commissions, but they are equally important as prices for those services. Pricing services at marginal cost can lead to efficient production and consumption of the service, and efficient allocation of the service when capacity limits are reached; and it can help to guide investment on an efficient basis. ...

Myth: user fees ensure better use of health services.

Tough economic times stir up anxiety over the affordability of public services—especially healthcare. As governments struggle to balance budgets, and healthcare spending continues to grow faster than the economy, conditions are ripe for old—and often discredited—policy ideas to make a comeback. User fees are no exception. At first blush, user fees appear to be an obvious solution. After all, an...

Abolishing User Fees in Africa

In its 2008 annual report, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries to " resist the temptation to rely on user fees " [1, p. 26]. Indeed, the consensus in the scientific community is that user fees have harmful effects on health care use and household budgets, especially for the poorest [2]. Still, as the WHO observes, " …most of the world's health-care systems continue to rely on th...

Assessment of client satisfaction in labor and delivery services at a maternity referral hospital in Ethiopia

INTRODUCTION Patients perception about service quality shapes their confidence with regard to use of the available health care facility. This study is aimed to assess the client`s satisfaction in a maternal health care setting. METHODS This is an institution based cross sectional descriptive study. A total of 423 postpartum women were interviewed. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 20 stati...