Download or read book Financing Health Care in Jamaica written by Maureen A. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing the Framework for Health Care Funding in Jamaica written by Stephanie Y. Corinthian-Reid and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financing Health Services in Developing Countries written by John S. Akin and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses several different approaches that support reforming health care services in developing countries. For some time now, health care services have been supported by government funds. As demands for improving health care services continue to increase additional demands will be placed on governments to respond. This, however, will not be easy. Slow economic growth and record budget deficits in the 1980's have forced reductions in public spending. Alternative approaches to finance health care services are needed. Such possible changes could involve: decentralization of federal government involvement; the promotion of nongovernment involvement; the imposition of user fees; and, establishing health insurance. Finally, the role of the Bank in pursuing new financing strategies is discussed.
Download or read book Revised Final Report for the Baseline Study on Financing of Health Services written by Barnets Group and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems Bridging Health and Finance Perspectives written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The health systems we enjoy today, and expected medical advances in the future, will be difficult to finance from public resources without major reforms. Public health spending in OECD countries has grown rapidly over most of the last half century. These spending increases have contributed to ...
Download or read book Jamaica Health Sector Review written by World Bank and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financing and Utilization of Health Services at the Local Level written by Pan American Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Adjustments and Health Care Financing in the Caribbean written by LeRoy Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analysis of Investment Process in the Environment and Health in Jamaica written by Stanley Lalta and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financing of Health Services written by WHO Study Group on the Financing of Health Services and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Innovations in Health Care Financing written by George Schieber and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish edition. World Bank Technical Paper No. 345S. This report examines specific policies for achieving sustainable development of the mining industry in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The report highlights the importance of the mining sector to national economies of the region and discusses World Bank assistance in formulating policy. Also available in English: (ISBN 0-8213-3816-1) Stock no. 13816.
Download or read book Health Financing Revisited written by Pablo Enrique Gottret and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This overview of health financing tools, policies and trends--with a particular focus on challenges facing developing countries--provides the basis for effective policy-making. Analyzing the current global environment, the book discusses health financing goals in the context of both the underlying health, demographic, social, economic, political and demographic analytics as well as the institutional realities faced by developing countries, and assesses policy options in the context of global evidence, the international aid architecture, cross-sectoral interactions, and countries' macroeconomic frameworks and overall development plans.
Download or read book Health Financing for Poor People written by Alexander S. Preker and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most urgent development challenges facing many low and middle income countries is the need for adequate financing systems to pay for health care provision to the estimated 1.3 billion impoverished people living in rural areas or working in the informal sector in urban areas. This publication considers ways of improving the financing of health care at low income levels, as part of a global strategy for increased investment in health and poverty reduction. Topics discussed include: global and regional trends in healthcare financing; strengths and weaknesses of community-based health financing, and experiences in Asia and Africa; country case studies using household survey analysis from Senegal, Rwanda, India and Thailand; deficit financing; and the impact of risk sharing on achieving health system goals.
Download or read book Financing Health Services Through User Fees and Insurance written by R. Paul Shaw and published by Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c1995 (1996 printing). This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Discussion Paper No. 294. Presents case studies that focus on user fees and self-financing health insurance as a means of contributing to efficiency, equity, and sustainable financing in the health sector. User fees are emphasized as a form of cost-sharing because private, out-of-pocket expenditures for health account for nearly one-half of total expenditures in Africa. Evidence presented in this report suggests that self-financing insurance is more prevalent in many countries than had been previously thought.
Download or read book Recurrent Costs in the Health Sector written by Brian Abel-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result of economic stagnation and international debt burdens, many developing countries are encountering difficulties in financing the recurrent costs of their health services. In 1986, with support from the US Agency for International Development, a study was initiated in Mali, Jamaica, and Costa Rica to 1. identify the nature, extent, and principal consequences of present and prospective recurrent budget shortages in publicly financed health care and 2. assess the feasibility and sustainability of alternative financing and resource allocation strategies to promote equity and efficiency in the provision of primary health care. The main source of health sector financing is direct payments from private households in Mali, taxes in Jamaica, and contributions by employers and employees in Costa Rica. Decentralization of control of local services, local retention of revenue from user charges, and the purchase of generic drugs by international tender represent the most feasible strategies for re-establishing poorly maintained and underutilized health facilities in Mali. In Jamaica, where a fee-for-service system predominates, a compulsory insurance scheme for those in regular employment is being considered, but provisions must be made for the many indigent and near-indigent patients. In Costa Rica, compulsory health insurance is able to make a substantial contribution to health care financing because a sizeable proportion of the population is employed; a shift to a system of paying doctors in primary care on a capitation basis seems feasible.
Download or read book Invertir En Salud written by Pan American Health Organization and published by Pan American Health Org. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta publicacion agrupa los informes finales de tres proyectos de investigacion en los que se exploraron los efectos de la inversion en salud sobre el crecimiento economico, la productividad de la familia y el alivio de la pobreza en America Latina y el C
Download or read book Going Universal written by Daniel Cotlear and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about 24 developing countries that have embarked on the journey towards universal health coverage (UHC) following a bottom-up approach, with a special focus on the poor and vulnerable, through a systematic data collection that provides practical insights to policymakers and practitioners. Each of the UHC programs analyzed in this book is seeking to overcome the legacy of inequality by tackling both a “financing gap†? and a “provision gap†?: the financing gap (or lower per capita spending on the poor) by spending additional resources in a pro-poor way; the provision gap (or underperformance of service delivery for the poor) by expanding supply and changing incentives in a variety of ways. The prevailing view seems to indicate that UHC require not just more money, but also a focus on changing the rules of the game for spending health system resources. The book does not attempt to identify best practices, but rather aims to help policy makers understand the options they face, and help develop a new operational research agenda. The main chapters are focused on providing a granular understanding of policy design, while the appendixes offer a systematic review of the literature attempting to evaluate UHC program impact on access to services, on financial protection, and on health outcomes.
