Health Financing Revisited
Title | Health Financing Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Pablo Enrique Gottret |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 082136586X |
This overview of health financing tools, policies and trends--with a particular focus on challenges facing developing countries--provides the basis for effective policy-making. Analyzing the current global environment, the book discusses health financing goals in the context of both the underlying health, demographic, social, economic, political and demographic analytics as well as the institutional realities faced by developing countries, and assesses policy options in the context of global evidence, the international aid architecture, cross-sectoral interactions, and countries' macroeconomic frameworks and overall development plans.
Health Financing Revisited
Title | Health Financing Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Pablo Gottret |
Publisher | |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1991 |
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Health Financing Revisited
Title | Health Financing Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Pablo Gottret |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Medical care |
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Good Practices in Health Financing
Title | Good Practices in Health Financing PDF eBook |
Author | Pablo Enrique Gottret |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 530 |
Release | 2008-01-01 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0821375121 |
This volume focuses on nine countries that have completed, or are well along in the process of carrying out, major health financing reforms. These countries have significantly expanded their people's health care coverage or maintained such coverage after prolonged political or economic shocks (e.g., following the collapse ofthe Soviet Union). In doing so, this report seeks to expand the evidence base on "good performance" in health financing reforms in low- and middle-income countries. The countries chosen for the study were Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Estonia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, and Vietnam.
Financing Health Services in Developing Countries
Title | Financing Health Services in Developing Countries PDF eBook |
Author | John S. Akin |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1987-01-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780821309001 |
This report discusses several different approaches that support reforming health care services in developing countries. For some time now, health care services have been supported by government funds. As demands for improving health care services continue to increase additional demands will be placed on governments to respond. This, however, will not be easy. Slow economic growth and record budget deficits in the 1980's have forced reductions in public spending. Alternative approaches to finance health care services are needed. Such possible changes could involve: decentralization of federal government involvement; the promotion of nongovernment involvement; the imposition of user fees; and, establishing health insurance. Finally, the role of the Bank in pursuing new financing strategies is discussed.
Creating Evidence for Better Health Financing Decisions
Title | Creating Evidence for Better Health Financing Decisions PDF eBook |
Author | Akiko Maeda |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 387 |
Release | 2012-05-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 082139469X |
Any analysis of health financing issues has to begin with sound estimates of the level and flow of resources in a health system, including total levels of spending, the sources of health expenditures, the uses of funds in terms of services purchased, and in terms of who purchases them. The analysis should also aim at understanding how these resource flows are correlated with health system outcomes, including those of improving health, reducing health inequalities, and reducing the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure. National Health Accounts (NHA) provide a framework to collect, compile, and analyze such data on all types of health spending in a country—and so create a robust evidence base for policy making. Although NHA data delineate the key financial metrics of a health system, the collection of these data have not been institutionalized in most developing countries. The root problems are often the same: insufficient resources to collect, collate, analyze and produce information on spending; poor development of health and other information systems; low levels of local capacity to interpret information to meet policy needs; and inadequate demand for data within countries. Furthermore, in many low- and middle-income countries, NHA activities have been conducted as ad hoc, donor-driven initiatives. Since 2008, the World Bank has been coordinating a global initiative to identify bottlenecks to the institutionalization of NHA, and to learn lessons in countries at different stages on the journey towards this institutionalization. The focus has been less on the production of NHA and more on its relevance as a tool to enable policy makers develop and implement evidence-based decisions, and better measure the impact of health reforms, especially those related to health financing. This report has been developed through a consultative process, involving experts and policy makers from more than fifty low-, middle- and high-income countries, large and small, in all corners of the world, development partners and World Bank staff globally. The report represents a synthesis of lessons learned from country experiences and is intended to serve as a strategic guide to countries and their development partners as they design and implement their strategy to develop nationally relevant and internationally comparable data, collected in a routine and cost-effective manner.
Health and General Systems of Financing Health Care Revisited
Title | Health and General Systems of Financing Health Care Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | R. D. Fraser |
Publisher | Kingston, Ont. : Institute for Economic Research, Queenʼs University |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Medical economics |
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