User–fee–removal improves equity of children’s health care utilization and reduces families’ financial burden: evidence from Jamaica

摘要

BackgroundThe impact of user–fee policies on the equity of health care utilization and households’ financial burdens has remained largely unexplored in Latin American and the Caribbean, as well as in upper–middle–income countries. This paper assesses the short– and long–term impacts of Jamaica’s user–fee–removal for children in 2007.