Spending Wisely Buying Health Services for the Poor 1st Edition by Alexander S Preker, John Langenbruner ISBN 0821359193 9780821359198

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ISBN 10: 0821359193

ISBN 13: 9780821359198 

Author: Alexander S. Preker; John Langenbruner

With a special focus on strategic purchasing and contracting of services from nongovernmental providers, ‘Spending Wisely’ reviews ways to make public spending on health care more efficient and equitable in developing countries. The underlying premise is that it is necessary to separate the function of financing from service delivery to improve public sector performance and accountability. In moving from passive budgeting to active purchasing of health care, the authors recommend policymakers ask five fundamental questions: for whom to buy, what to buy, from whom to buy, how to pay and at what price? In coming to grips with these questions, different authors throughout the book emphasize the important role of organizational, institutional and management issues to the performance of public spending on health care in low- and middle-income countries.

Table of contents:

Acknowledgments
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction

Part I: The Conceptual Framework

1. Managing Scarcity through Strategic Purchasing of Health Care
2. For Whom to Buy? Are Free Government Health Services the Best Way to Reach the Poor?
3. What to Buy? Revisiting Priority Setting in Health Care
4. From Whom to Buy? Selecting Providers
5. How to Pay? Understanding and Using Payment Incentives
6. At What Price? Affordable and Realistic Fees

Part II: Making Strategic Purchasing Pro-Poor
7. The Equity Dimensions of Purchasing
8. Reversing the Law of Inverse Care
9. Risk Pooling and Purchasing

Part III: Purchasing Health Services
10. Paying for Public Health Services: Financing and Utilization
11. Buying Results: Contracting for Primary Health Care Delivery
12. Purchasing Hospital Services: Key Questions for Policymakers

Part IV: Purchasing Inputs
13. Paying for Health Care Labor
14. Purchasing Pharmaceuticals
15. Paying for Capital
16. Paying for Knowledge and Research
17. Using Resource Profiles

Part V: Supply, Demand, And Markets
18. Single-Payer Health Insurance
19. Multiple Payers in Health Care: A Framework for Assessment
20. Influencing the Demand Side of Purchasing

Part VI: Legal And Regulatory Issues
21. Law and Regulation
22. Quality-Based Purchasing in the United States: Applications in Developing Countries?

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