Financing Health Services in Developing Countries

Financing Health Services in Developing Countries
Author: John S. Akin
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780821309001
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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.

Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems Bridging Health and Finance Perspectives

Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems Bridging Health and Finance Perspectives
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2015-09-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9264233385
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The health systems we enjoy today, and expected medical advances in the future, will be difficult to finance from public resources without major reforms. Public health spending in OECD countries has grown rapidly over most of the last half century. These spending increases have contributed to ...

Health Financing Revisited

Health Financing Revisited
Author: Pablo Enrique Gottret
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 082136586X
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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 in the Republic of Gabon

Health Financing in the Republic of Gabon
Author: Karima Saleh
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2014-10-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1464802904
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Gabon is an upper middle-income country, with reasonable spending on health, however, its health outcomes resemble that of a country that is low / low-middle income. Where has Gabon gone wrong, and what are the challenges that Gabon is facing in improving health outcomes?

Health Systems Financing

Health Systems Financing
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9241564024
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"This World Health Report was produced under the overall direction of Carissa Etienne ... and Anarfi Asamoa Baah ... The principal writers were David B. Evans ... [et al] -- t.p. verso.

Health System Efficiency

Health System Efficiency
Author: Jonathan Cylus
Publisher: Health Policy
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789289050418
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In this book the authors explore the state of the art on efficiency measurement in health systems and international experts offer insights into the pitfalls and potential associated with various measurement techniques. The authors show that: - The core idea of efficiency is easy to understand in principle - maximizing valued outputs relative to inputs, but is often difficult to make operational in real-life situations - There have been numerous advances in data collection and availability, as well as innovative methodological approaches that give valuable insights into how efficiently health care is delivered - Our simple analytical framework can facilitate the development and interpretation of efficiency indicators.

The health financing progress matrix

The health financing progress matrix
Author:
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2020-12-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9240017801
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This document provides detailed advice in support of implementation of version 2.0 of the Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) released in December 2020, detailed in Assessing country health financing systems: the health financing progress matrix. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020. The HFPM is WHO’s standardized qualitative approach to assessing country health financing systems, and comprises two stages. Stage 1 provides a descriptive landscape of the different coverage schemes and programmes in the health system, including how the health budget is organized. Stage 2 comprises thirty-three questions which look in detail at the way health financing institutions and policies are organized, and how they are implemented. For each question the guide discusses why it is important to ask, and what progress looks like, together with country illustrations. Thoughts on information sources and quantitative indicators which can support the assessment are also provided.

Creating Evidence for Better Health Financing Decisions

Creating Evidence for Better Health Financing Decisions
Author: Akiko Maeda
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2012-06-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821394703
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This report summarize the experience since 2008 of the global efforts coordinated by the World Bank to use National Health Accounts (NHA) to better assess sources and allocation of public, donor and private health expenditures and inform countries' health financing policies.