Mutual health insurance in Rwanda: evidence on access to care and financial risk protection.

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Published in Health Policy on October 20, 2010

Authors

Priyanka Saksena1, Adélio Fernandes Antunes, Ke Xu, Laurent Musango, Guy Carrin

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Health Systems Financing, World Health Organization, 20, Avenue Appia 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. saksenap@who.int

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