Financing health care in East Asia and the Pacific
Subtitle: best practices and remaining challenges
By: John C. Langenbrunner, Aparnaa Somanathan
Contributors: Somanathan, Aparnaa; World Bank
Series: Directions in development. Human development; Directions in development (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780821386828; 9780821387368
Subjects: Cost of Medical care; Population Dynamics; Health Care Costs; Economics; Medical Economics; Delivery of Health Care; Medical economics
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why this health financing note; title: Background and overview of the East Asia and Pacific Region and the health sectors; title: Importance of investing in health and a framework for managing and using funds in the sector; title: Mobilization of revenues for health; title: Pooling and management of funds; title: Resource allocation and purchasing (RAP); title: Connecting financing and delivery of services : institutional and organizational characteristics in EAP countries; title: Assessing performance in EAP : efficiency and equity of health financing.