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Health Affairs, 28, no. 4 (2009): 1067-1077 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.4.1067 © 2009 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Public Views Of Health System Issues In Four Asian Countries

Mrigesh Bhatia, Ravi Rannan-Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan, Mohammed N. Huq, Badri Raj Pande and Batbayar Chuluunzagd

To elicit the public’s views on health system issues, we conducted an opinion poll survey in Bangladesh, Mongolia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. We focused on health inequalities. The results show high levels of dissatisfaction with government health services in all four of the countries. Access to government health services was an important concern. A sizable number of respondents reported that their governments did not consider their views at all in shaping health care services. The policy implications of the study findings are discussed.

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