With a special focus on strategic purchasing and contracting of services from nongovernmental providers, this title reviews ways to make public spending on health care more efficient and equitable in developing countries. It is recommended that: 1) experiments and pilot projects for improving public sector hospitals should focus on mission clarity and organizational simplification; 2) programs for improving the composition of utilization should experiment with payments to consumers and with health labor force composition and training; and 3) initiatives to attract providers to rural areas should use explicit deferred compensation contracts to improve monitoring.
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Langenbrunner, John C. [editor] Preker, Alexander S. [editor]
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Document Date
2005/05/15
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Document Type
Publication
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Report Number
34425
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Volume No
1
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1
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Disclosure Date
2010/05/19
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Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Doc Name
Spending wisely : buying health services for the poor
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Keywords
Health Service;financing of health care;distribution of health resources;payment mechanism;public health service;health care system;strategic purchasing;agency for international development;cost of health services;millennium development goal;inequality in health status;human resource in health;access to health care;Rational Use of Drugs;health care resources;private provider;health insurance fund;conceptual framework;payment incentive;quality of care;national health service;health care organization;local service provider;provider payment mechanisms;degree of competition;health outcome;insurance function;risk pool;
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Langenbrunner, John C. [editor] Preker, Alexander S. [editor]
Spending wisely : buying health services for the poor (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/845591468137396770/Spending-wisely-buying-health-services-for-the-poor