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Technical Briefs

Cambodia - Contracting Health Care Services for the Rural Poor

This brief is an overview of Cambodia’s efforts to reach the rural poor with health care services via the contracting of NGOs to manage the system. The MOH’s coverage plan, indicators, and the resulting benefits to the poor are included. Overall, the results suggest contracting primary health care may very effectively target health care services to the poor.
[Cambodia: Contracting Health Care Services for the Rural Poor -> external link]
Technical Briefs

Paying the Poor to Use Health Services—Conditional Cash Transfers in Health and Education: Mexico

Author/s: Abdo Yazbeck
This brief (adapted from papers by David Coady, Deon Filmer, and Davidson Gwatkin) highlights the factors resulting in success for Mexico’s PROGRESA/Oportunidades, a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program. With success in reducing current poverty as well as improving the future of children through increased investment in their health and education, the program shows it is feasible to carry out a targeted CCT program on a very large scale even within poor isolated areas with few services.
[Paying the Poor to Use Health Services—Conditional Cash Transfers in Health and Education: Mexico -> external link] June 2007
Technical Briefs

Performance-Based Financing (PBF) within CORDAID: Overview of Activities, October 2009

Author/s: Frank van de Looij
This document is a report of Performance-Based Financing (PBF) within the Catholic Organisation for Relief and Development Aid (CORDAID): Overview of activities, October 2009. CORDAID has implemented performance-based programmes in several countries and different contextual situations, ranging from very fragile (Sudan and Central African Republic) to stable (Tanzania, Zambia and Indonesia). The most important characteristics and approaches of all programmes are summarized.
[download, 58.82 KB] October 2009
Technical Briefs

Paying for Health Services: Making Purchasers Accountable

Author/s: Peter Smith
In all health systems, providers must be paid for their services. That payment can come from two sources: directly from the individual patient, or from an organization paying on behalf of the patient—or some mix of the two. This note focuses on the second type of payer, described in this paper as a ‘strategic purchaser’ of health services, to distinguish it from the patient as a purchaser. This paper looks at the form that strategic purchasers take, how they can be held to account, and their autonomy.
[download, 350.84 KB] January 2010
Technical Briefs

Argentina's Plan Nacer: Provincial Maternal and Child Health Insurance - A Results-Based Financing Project at Work

Author/s: World Bank team led by Rafael Cortez, Senior Health Economist, LCSHH
From "En Breve," a regular series of notes highlighting recent lessons emerging from the operational and analytical program of the World Bank‘s Latin America and Caribbean Region. The December 2009 issue describes a results-based financing project in Argentina - Plan Nacer.
[download, 1.55 MB] December 2009
Technical Briefs

How You Pay Health Workers Matters: A Primer on Health Worker Remuneration Methods

Author/s: Marko Vujicic
[download, 513.13 KB] October 2009
Technical Briefs

The Puzzle of Isolation Bonuses for Health Workers

Author/s: Caryn Bredenkamp
[download, 337.8 KB] October 2009
Technical Briefs

How to Contract: What Works and What Doesn’t

Author/s: Michael Mcdowell
[download, 535.31 KB] September 2009
Technical Briefs

Health Results-Based Financing (RBF) in Practice: Ten Institutional Challenges

Author/s: Logan Brenzel and Joseph Naimoli
[download, 284.79 KB] September 2009
Technical Briefs

Contributing to Global Learning About Results-Based Financing (RBF): The Health Results Innovation Trust Fund

Author/s: Joseph Naimoli
[download, 288.36 KB] September 2009
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