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This is a community blog for all those interested in RBF and Performance-Based Financing (PBF). We invite participation on all issues that are challenging, perplexing or intriguing on health care reform in developing countries, especially reform linking results to incentives. The ultimate goal is to help get more value for money from investing in health. Please send your suggestions for new posts!

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Rena Eichler

President of Broad Branch Associates and Center for Global Development Visiting Fellow

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Rena Eichler's blog

RBF - Something New?

By Rena Eichler on Tue, 2010-06-08 17:02
Clever health managers in both the public and private sectors have long understood that, to motivate health providers and patients to take actions to achieve health results, it is critical to build on what makes people tick. Managers realize that incentives - be they monetary or material - might be the added sweetener needed for traditional birth attendants to refer pregnant women to health facilities; for poor TB patients to complete their course of drugs; or for health service providers to reach out to under-served communities. Many results-based financing (RBF) schemes are home grown, locally implemented, and only one part of a broad strategy to improve results. In fact, innovative health managers don’t necessarily call what they’re doing RBF at all.
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