Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS SWwR0xEQ. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Study objectives : To assess the affordability of health care to poor rural households in Vietnam under conditions of transition from a planned to a market economy and, in light of other transitional experience, inform policy on increasing access of the poor to affordable care of acceptable quality. Design : Observational study by cross sectional socioeconomic survey, longitudinal healthcare seeking survey, and qualitative semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions ; qualitative follow up over six years. Setting : Four rural communes in north of Vietnam between 1992 and 1998. Survey participants : 656 households (2995 people) selected by systematic random sampling. Main results : Compared with non-poor households, poor households had significantly lower average per capita rates of healthcare consultation and expenditure (p
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