Résumé :
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International attention has focused in recent years on methods for analysing costs of public hospitals in developing countries, with the goal of reducing the financial burden on governments by enabling improved resource allocation, by identifying areas for cost recovery and cost control, and by developing management systems to facilitate these efforts. A range of methods for cost analysis, cost recovery, and cost control are reviewed in this article, with illustrations of applications of the methods at Victoria Hospital, the national hospital in St Lucia. Comparisons are made to similar studies in Belize, Lesotho and the Dominican Republic...(R.A.)
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