At 12:01 PM 2001/03/16, you wrote:
>Announcing two new publications from Management Sciences for Health!
>
>1) Ensuring Equal Access to Health Services: User Fee Systems and the
>Poor. This book examines user fee systems in five countries (Kenya,
>Guinea, Tanzania, Ecuador, and Indonesia) and synthesizes the findings to
>make recommendations for policy experts and decision-makers. Audiences for
>this book include teachers and students of international public health,
>managers of health programs in developing countries, donors financing
>health care activities, health economists, and health policymakers seeking
>to make new or existing user fee systems more equitable.
>
>2) User Fees for Health Services: Guidelines for Protecting the Poor.
>Health policymakers and program managers in both the public and private
>sectors will find this book useful for designing and implementing
>financing mechanisms that protect the poor and ensure equity. The guide
>helps policymakers and program managers to consider what information they
>need if they plan to introduce user fees. It addresses important issues
>such as: What is the role of user fees in funding health services? When
>are special mechanisms necessary to protect the poor? What types of
>mechanisms are available, and how effective and costly are they?
>
>To order, visit us at http://www.msh.org/publications. Our publications
>are free of charge to people in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Funds
>received from sales in North America, Western Europe, Japan, and Australia
>support reprinting and distribution of our publications in 180 countries
>worldwide.
>
>Please forward this message to colleagues who may be interested in these
>publications.
>
>Sincerely yours,
>
>Sherry Cotaco
>Bookstore and Distribution Manager
>Management Sciences for Health
>165 Allandale Road
>Boston, MA 02130
>Tel: (617) 524-7799 x 280
>Fax: (617) 524-2825
>E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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