The ongoing financial and economic crisis has hit hard the lives of citizens in Eastern Europe and Central Asian (ECA) countries. Economic growth has started to dip, unemployment is rising and government revenues are expected to fall. The crisis is having a direct impact on the ability of households to pay for health care, a situation that will likely be exacerbated as real government spending on health care declines in many countries due to reduced...
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Mitigating the impact of the global economic crisis on household health spending
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equity in health care
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Docteur,Elizabeth Renee.
Mitigating the impact of the global economic crisis on household health spending (English). Europe and Central Asia knowledge brief ; volume no. 7 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/213481468256511939