Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933286296 ISBN 13: 9781933286297

Publisher: Center for Global Development, 2009

Synopsis

This volume demonstrates how incentives can improve the delivery and use of health services in low- and middle-income countries. The authors describe the rationale for introducing incentives tied to achievement of specific health-related targets, and they provide clear guidance about designing, implementing, and evaluating programs that provide incentives to health care providers and patients. A set of case studies focuses on recent uses of incentives addressing a range of health conditions in diverse countries. In particular, these studies emphasize how explicit incentives can be used to strengthen weak health systems.

The book will be of use to policymakers and program managers in both developing countries and the donor community interested in improving health outcomes through the strategic use of performance-based incentives.

About this title

About the Author:

Rena Eichler is president of Broad Branch Associates and serves as technical lead for the Performance-Based IncentivesWorking Group run by the Center for Global Development. Ruth Levine, vice president of the Center for Global Development, is a health economist who has worked on health and family planning financing in East Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and South Asia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Center for Global Development
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1933286296
• ISBN 13: 9781933286297
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Eichler Rena, Levine Ruth