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Health Policy and Planning; 10(3): 223-240
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The impact of alternative cost recovery schemes on access and equity in Niger

FRANCOIS DIOP, ABDO YAZBECK and RICARDO BITRAN

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Francois Diop, Abt Associates Inc., 4800 Montgomery Lane, Suite 600, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.

The authors examine accessibility and the sustainability of quality health care in a rural setting under two alternative cost recovery methods, a fee-for-service method and a type of social financing (risk-sharing) strategy based on an annual tax + fee-for-service. Both methods were accompanied by similar interventions aimed at improving the quality of primary health services. Based on pilot tests of cost recovery in the non-hospital sector in Niger, the article presents results from baseline and final survey data, as well as from facility utilization, cost, and revenue data collected in two test districts and a control district. Cost recovery accompanied by quality improvements increases equity and access to health care and the type of cost recovery method used can make a difference. In Niger, higher access for women, children, and the poor resulted from the tax + fee method, than from the pure fee-for-service method. Moreover, revenue generation per capita under the tax + fee method was two times higher than under the fee-for-service method, suggesting that the prospects of sustainability were better under the social financing strategy. However, sustainability under cost recovery and improved quality depends as much on policy measures aimed at cost containment, particularly for drugs, as on specific cost recovery methods.


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