Decentralised resource allocation and its impact on equitable health care financing

Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-87).The main objectives of this thesis are to: (i) Map the financing of non-hospital primary health care within local government areas in South Africa; analyse the equity of financing health care in relation to need (iii) and document the process followed at provincial and local government level in decision making around budgeting for non-hospital Public Health Care services