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Purchasing of Knowledge for Health Gains
The 20th century witnessed a global transformation in human health. Chile's experience illustrates the magnitude of this transformation. By the mid-1990s Chile's per capita income had reached about US$4,000 (adjusted for purchasing power), and Chilean women had achieved a life expectancy of 79…
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Multiple Payers in Health Care: A Framework for Assessment
The starting point of the debate about the pros and cons of multipayer systems is the suspicion that in many health care systems, consumers do not get sufficient value for money. This contribution argues that one cause may be a nonoptimal choice of payment systems. Optimal payment of health care…
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Risk Pooling in Health Care Financing: The Implications for Health System Performance
Pooling is the health system function whereby collected health revenues are transferred to purchasing organizations. Pooling ensures that the risk related to financing health interventions is borne by all the members of the pool and not by each contributor individually. Its main purpose is to…
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Health Financing Innovations in the Caribbean: EHPO© and the National Health Fund of Jamaica
This report examines the experience of Jamaica, which after years of macroeconomic difficulties, constraints on fiscal resources for health and debate on alternative financing, established the National Health Fund in 2003. With a view to eliciting critical lessons for future actions and for…
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Contraceptive Security: What You Can Do
Many countries face the challenge of meeting people's needs for contraceptives, including condoms, on a sustainable basis. Programmatic experience in several countries has pointed to some "ready lessons" that can be applied to improve contraceptive security.
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Pricing Health Services For Purchasers: A Review of Methods and Experiences
This paper reviews methodologies and international experience related to costing and pricing health services. Several factors affect the determination of the prices purchasers pay for health services. These include: the method of provider payment; the availability of information on costs,…
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Overcoming Barriers to Health Service Access and Influencing the Demand Side Through Purchasing
This paper investigates the role of demand-side barriers in impeding access to the use of health services. Demand-side barriers are defined as determinants of use of health care that are not dependent on service delivery or price or direct price of those services. They include distance,…
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PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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Initiatives Inc.
Initiatives Inc. provides technical assistance to government, intergovernmental, and non-governmental organizations in the social service sectors, primarily in the developing world. Their work is aimed at improving and increasing the managerial and technical capacity of in-country health and…
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Review of DFID approach to social marketing
This report discusses in detail the DFID approach to social marketing.
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Technical Area: Pharmaceutical Partnerships and Social Marketing, Public-Private Engagement
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