Download or read book Sustainable Health Care Financing in Southern Africa written by Allison Beattie and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Discussion Paper No. 385. Since the advent of reform in 1992, the Russian authorities have made substantial strides toward creating a market economy through privatization. Recently, Russian authorities have established an institutional framework for a case-by-case approach that ensures transparency and competition through the use of independent financial and other advisers. This paper contains the principal presentations made at a World Bank workshop on the lessons of international experience in case-by-case privatization.
Download or read book Sustainable Health Care Financing in Southern Africa written by Allison Beatti and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 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 Healthy Partnerships written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the private health sector is an important, and often dominant, provider of health services in Sub-Saharan Africa, it is the job of governments as the stewards of the health system to engage with it. Increasing the contributions that the existing private health sector is making to public health is an important, but often neglected, element of meeting the daunting health-related challenges facing African nations. This Report presents newly collected data on how and how effectively each country in the Africa region is engaging the respective private health sectors; and how the engagement compares across the region. While the approach taken by governments varies greatly between countries, there is much room for improvement in the Africa region overall to engage more effectively and room for exchange of ideas and good practices on how to do so. Improved solutions on the policy/regulatory side should be supported by effective organization of the private sector itself and by adjustments in donor programs that take the dynamics of the private health sector better into account.
Download or read book The Financing and Sustainability of Free Primary Health Care in South Africa written by Thulisile Nomfundo Phetha and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Towards better engagement of the private sector in health service delivery written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financing Sustainable Development in Africa written by Uchenna R. Efobi and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume provides a critical evaluation of financing options for sustainable development in Africa. While sustainability has long been the watchword for development programs, and while many African countries have taken initiatives to develop integrated frameworks that tackle developmental challenges—including poverty, education, and health—financing has remained a challenge. In this book, an expert team of chapter authors examines new financing options while also exploring how traditional financing means, such as foreign aid and foreign direct investment, can be more effective for sustainability. The authors discuss how African nations can build adequate structures and productive capacity to create a platform that can meet present economic, social, and environmental needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Practical case studies and scientific evidence give this book a unique approach that is both qualitative and quantitative. This book will be of interest to students, practitioners, and scholars of development studies, public policy and African economics.
Download or read book Collaborative capacity development to complement stroke rehabilitation in Africa written by Quinette Louw and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly book focuses on stroke in Africa. Stroke is a leading cause of disability among adults of all ages, contributing significantly to health care costs related to long term implications, particularly if rehabilitation is sub-optimal. Given the burden of stroke in Africa, there is a need for a book that focuses on functioning African stroke survivors and the implications for rehabilitation within the African context. In addition, there is a need to progress with contextualised, person-centred, evidence-based guidance for the rehabilitation of people with stroke in Africa, thereby enabling them to lead socially and economically meaningful lives. The research incorporated in the book used a range of primary and secondary methodological approaches (scoping reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, descriptive studies, surveys, health economics, and clinical practice guideline methodology) to shed new insights into African-centred issues and strategies to optimise function post-stroke.
Download or read book Financing South Africa s National Health System Through National Health Insurance written by Claire Botha and published by HSRC Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summarizing the keynote addresses and deliberations that emerged from a recent colloquium, this account illustrates the need for universal access to healthcare in South Africa. Arguing that providing this service is the responsibility of the South African government, the policy analysis unit of the Human Sciences Research Council hosted this colloquium in order to facilitate debate on the subject, initiating policy dialogue and formulating ideas for those involved in health-policy development. Divided into three sections, this overview provides a discussion of the context for policy debates on health as well as a concise summary of four key themes: the reform path since 1994, critical options for health within the context of a comprehensive system of social security, local and international evidence on health-system models, and health-systems reform and stakeholder engagement. Recommendations for improving implementation and taking the process of policy development forward are also included.
Download or read book Cost Sharing written by R. Paul Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987, the World Bank recommended that the principle of cost recovery be incorporated into an agenda for financing publicly provided health services in developing countries. Concern remains widespread, however, that the introduction of user fees in government operated facilities or costly membership in insurance plans could deny the poorest people access to modern health services. The World Bank study better heath in Africa (1994) proposed several reforms for health care systems. These included increasing spending by governments on health care from $8 per capita to $13 per capita. This level is considered necessary to provide a cost-effective package of basic preventative and curative services, including safe drinking water and improved sanitation in low-income African countries. These countries represent 60 percent of the continent's population.
Download or read book Social Health Insurance written by World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2005 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health development in countries of Asia and the Pacific is constantly facing new challenges but financial constraints prevent people from seeking timely health care and completing the treatment regimen. Many countries in Asia and the Pacific have introduced cost recovery by charging for publicly provided health services and the share of private financing in total health care spending has significantly increased in the past two decades. However such reforms were carried out without adequate measures to protect the poor and private out-of-pocket financing is an inequitable and inefficient way of funding health services. There has thus been growing interest in health insurance not only as a financing mechanism, but also as an effective social safety net. This publication is the outcome of joint efforts by the WHO Regional Offices for the Western Pacific and South-East Asia, the Asian Development Bank, and health care financing experts in the two regions. By the use of case studies it documents regional experiences in health care financing arrangements through prepayment, with critical analysis on factors linked to success, failures and lessons learnt in various socioeconomic settings. While experiences from 12 selected countries have been highlighted, the lessons are relevant for all countries in Asia and the Pacific. The publication will therefore be useful for policy makers and for international development partners undertaking technical assistance in the field of social security and social health insurance.
Download or read book SHIELD Work Package 5 Report written by Di Mclntyre and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is part of the SHIELD (Strategies for Health Insurance for Equity in Less Developed Countries) project, which aims to critically evaluate existing inequities in health care in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania and the extent to which changes in health care financing mechanisms could address equity challenges. The first phase of SHIELD involved undertaking detailed financing incidence analyses (i.e. an evaluation of the distribution of the current health care financing burden between socio-economic groups relative to each group's ability-to-pay) and benefit incidence analyses (i.e. an evaluation of the distribution of the benefits of using health services across socio-economic groups relative to each group's need for health care) as a means of identifying existing health system inequities and the factors contributing to these inequities in each of the three countries. The second phase of SHIELD relates to identifying and critically evaluating options for the future development of health care financing mechanisms in relation to their potential equity impact and their feasibility and sustainability given attitudes of key stakeholders. This report focuses on aspects of this phase of work in South Africa, namely the feasibility and sustainability of alternative health financing reforms in relation to their respective resource requirements.
Download or read book Communicable Diseases in Southern Africa written by Elma W. Kortenbout and published by Pearson South Africa. This book was released on 2016 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CD-ROM contains case studies, questions and answers, visual references and useful additional material.
Download or read book Modelling in Health Care Finance written by Michael Cichon and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1999 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In straightforward, non-technical language, the book demystifies the modelling process and provides step-by-step guidance, demonstrating how managers and policy-makers can best make use of models in the formation of health policy goals, the identification of options, and the analysis and implementation of results.
Download or read book Health Systems Policy Finance and Organization written by Guy Carrin and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2010-05-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is unique in its systematic approach to these three pillars of health systems analysis will give readers of various backgrounds authoritative material about subjects adjacent to their own specialties. Assembling such comparative materials is usually an onerous task because so many programs possess their own vocabularies, goals, and methods. This book will provide common grounds for people in programs as diverse as economics and finance, allied health, business and management, and the social sciences, including psychology. Gives readers of various backgrounds authoritative material about subjects adjacent to their own specialties Provides common grounds for people in programs as diverse as economics and finance, allied health, business and management, and the social sciences, including psychology
Download or read book Sustainable Health Financing for Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage in Low and Middle income Countries written by Palingwindé Yann Tapsoba and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis focuses on the sustainability issues in health financing in low-and middle -income countries. It is articulated around four chapters. The two first chapters propose to respectively explore the determinants of technical efficiency of health expenditures and their level per capita in low-and middle -income countries. The first chapter analyzes trade openness effect on the technical efficiency of health expenditures. The second chapter investigates air pollution effect on health expenditures. In the two last chapters, we focus on Sub-Saharan African countries. The third chapter studies the role that plays prepayment health financing for health improvement in households whereas the fourth one sets the goal to analyze the determinants of prepayment health expenditures, by particularly focusing on political instability.
