Good practice in health financing
Subtitle: lessons from reforms in low and middle-income countries
By: Pablo Gottret, George J. Schieber, and Hugh R. Waters, coeditors.
Contributors: Gottret, Pablo E. 1959-; Schieber, George.; Waters, Hugh.; World Bank.
Publisher: World Bank; World Bank Publications
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780821375112
Subjects: Medical care -- Developing countries -- Finance; Health care reform -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries; Medical policy -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries; Medical care, Cost of -- Developing countries; Health status indicators -- Developing countries; Health Care Reform -- economics -- Statistics; Health Care Reform -- standards -- Statistics; Delivery of Health Care -- economics -- Statistics; Developing Countries -- Statistics; Health Care Costs -- Statistics; Health Expenditures -- Statistics
Genres: Statistics.
Description: "For humanitarian reasons and the concern for households' economic and health security, the health sector is at the center of global development policy. Developing countries and the international community are scaling up health systems to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and are improving financial protection by securing long-term support for these gains. Yet money alone cannot buy health gains or prevent impoverishment due to catastrophic medical bills; well structured, results-based financing reforms are needed. Unfortunately, glottal evidence of "successful" health financing policies that can guide the reform effort is very limited and therefore the policy debate is often driven by ideological, one-size-fits-all solutions." "Good Practices in Health Financing: Lessons from Reforms in Low- and Middle-Income Countries attempts to begin to fill the void by systematically assessing health financing reforms in nine low- and middle-income countries that have managed to expand their health financing systems to both improve health status and protect against catastrophic medical expenses. The participating countries are: Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Estonia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, and Vietnam. The study seeks to identify common enabling factors of their good performance. While the findings for each country are important, collectively they send a clear message to the global community that more attention is needed to define "good practice" and then to evaluate and disseminate the global evidence base."--book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.