Who benefits from removing user fees for facility-based delivery services? Evidence on socioeconomic differences from Ghana, Senegal and Sierra Leone
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.05.003
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User fee removal; Maternal health services; Socioeconomic inequalities; Sub-Saharan Africa;All these keywords.
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