Can performance-based financing be used to reform health systems in developing countries?

Can performance-based financing be used to reform health systems in developing countries?

Over the past 15 years, performance-based financing has been implemented in an increasing number of developing countries, particularly in Africa, as a means of improving health worker performance. Scaling up to national implementation in Burundi and Rwanda has encouraged proponents of performance-based financing to view it as more than a financing mechanism, but increasingly as a strategic tool...

Financing health services in developing countries: an agenda for reform.

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Can the ubiquitous power of mobile phones be used to improve health outcomes in developing countries?

BACKGROUND The ongoing policy debate about the value of communications technology in promoting development objectives is diverse. Some view computer/web/phone communications technology as insufficient to solve development problems while others view communications technology as assisting all sections of the population. This paper looks at evidence to support or refute the idea that fixed and mob...

Community-based health insurance in developing countries: a study of its contribution to the performance of health financing systems.

We studied the potential of community-based health insurance (CHI) to contribute to the performance of health financing systems. The international empirical evidence is analysed on the basis of the three health financing subfunctions as outlined in the World Health Report 2000: revenue collection, pooling of resources and purchasing of services. The evidence indicates that achievements of CHI i...

Health financing in developing and transitional countries