Performance incentives for global health
Subtitle: potentials and pitfalls
By: [edited by] Rena Eichler and Ruth Levine ; Performance-Based Incentives Working Group.
Contributors: Eichler, Rena.; Levine, Ruth, 1959-; Center for Global Development. Performance-Based Incentives Working Group.
Publisher: Center for Global Development
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781933286297
Subjects: Medical economics; World health; Health promotion; Delivery of Health Care -- economics; Program Evaluation -- economics; Reimbursement, Incentive -- economics; World Health
Description: "Describes the rationale for introducing incentives tied to achievement of specific health-related targets, and provides guidance about designing, implementing, and evaluating programs that provide incentives to health care providers and patients. Presents case studies that focus on recent uses of incentives addressing a range of health conditions in diverse countries"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Money into health; title: Problems to solve; title: Using performance incentives; title: Making payment for performance work; title: A learning agenda; title: Latin America : cash transfers to support better household decisions / Amanda Glassman, Jessica Todd, and Marie Gaarder; title: United States : orienting pay-for-performance to patients / Kevin Volpp and Mark Pauly; title: Afghanistan : paying NGOs for performance in a postconflict setting / Egbert Sondorp ... [et al.]; title: Haiti : going to scale with a performance incentive model / Rena Eichler ... [et al.]; title: Rwanda : performance-based financing in the public sector / Louis Rusa ... [et al.]; title: Nicaragua : combining demand-and supply-side incentives / Ferdinando Regalia and Leslie Castro; title: Worldwide : incentives for tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment / Alexandra Beith, Rena Eichler, and Diana Weil.