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Spending Wisely : Buying Health Services for the Poor

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  • Alexander S. Preker
  • John C. Langenbrunner

Abstract

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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  • Alexander S. Preker & John C. Langenbrunner, 2005. "Spending Wisely : Buying Health Services for the Poor," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 7449, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:7449
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    1. Dayashankar Maurya & Amit Srivastava, 2022. "Controlling Partner Opportunism in Cross-Sectoral Alliance: Dynamics of Governance Flexibility," Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Springer;Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management, vol. 23(1), pages 15-28, December.
    2. Mohammad Abu-Zaineh & Habiba Romdhane & Bruno Ventelou & Jean-Paul Moatti & Arfa Chokri, 2013. "Appraising financial protection in health: the case of Tunisia," International Journal of Health Economics and Management, Springer, vol. 13(1), pages 73-93, March.
    3. Walaiporn Patcharanarumol & Warisa Panichkriangkrai & Angkana Sommanuttaweechai & Kara Hanson & Yaowaluk Wanwong & Viroj Tangcharoensathien, 2018. "Strategic purchasing and health system efficiency: A comparison of two financing schemes in Thailand," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(4), pages 1-13, April.
    4. World Bank, 2012. "Health Equity and Financial Protection in Ghana," World Bank Publications - Reports 27067, The World Bank Group.
    5. World Bank, 2007. "Healthy Development : The World Bank Strategy for Health, Nutrition, and Population Results," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 6843, December.
    6. Alexander S. Preker & Peter Zweifel & Onno P. Schellekens, 2010. "Global Marketplace for Private Health Insurance : Strength in Numbers," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 13085, December.
    7. Jean-Paul Moatti & Bruno Ventelou, 2009. "Économie de la santé dans les pays en développement des paradigmes en mutation," Revue économique, Presses de Sciences-Po, vol. 60(2), pages 241-256.
    8. Elisabeth Paul & Garrett W. Brown & Valéry Ridde, 2020. "Misunderstandings and ambiguities in strategic purchasing in low‐ and middle‐income countries," International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(5), pages 1001-1008, September.
    9. McKinnon, Britt & Harper, Sam & Kaufman, Jay S., 2015. "Who benefits from removing user fees for facility-based delivery services? Evidence on socioeconomic differences from Ghana, Senegal and Sierra Leone," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 135(C), pages 117-123.
    10. Elisabeth Paul & Garrett Wallace Brown & Valéry Ridde, 2020. "Misunderstandings and ambiguities in strategic purchasing in low‐ and middle‐income countries," ULB Institutional Repository 2013/309855, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

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