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Can Incentives Strengthen Access to Quality Family Planning Services? Lessons from Burundi, Kenya, and Liberia

Family Planning and Reproductive Health, Human Resources for Health, Publications

Resource Type: Report Authors: Lindsay Morgan Published: 8/1/2012 Resource Description: Can performance-based incentive (PBI) programs—programs that reward the delivery of outputs and outcomes with financial incentives—stimulate quality family planning (FP) service provision and enable women to access FP services? Or is incentivizing FP too riddled with risk, too liable to encourage providers to coerce patients or to cause […]

Options Guide: Performance-Based Incentives to Strengthen Public Health Supply Chains – Version 1

Human Resources for Health, Publications

Resource Type: Report Authors: Rena Eichler, Alex Ergo, Brian Serumaga, James Rosen, Greg Miles, and Mavere Tukai Published: 8/1/2012 Resource Description: Performance-based incentives (PBIs) aim to motivate all the people and teams who together comprise a public supply chain to work hard and perform their function well. PBI is an innovative approach that explicitly links financial investment to […]

Verification in Performance-Based Incentive Schemes

Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Human Resources for Health, Publications

Resource Type: Report Authors: Alex Ergo and Ligia Paina Published: 8/1/2012 Resource Description: Verification in Performance-based Incentive (PBI) schemes aims to ensure that reported data accurately reflects actual performance, both by detecting and correcting misreporting, and by identifying and deterring fraud. In doing so, PBI verification guarantees the credibility of the scheme so that the different stakeholders trust […]

New Perspectives in Health Systems Strengthening Executive Summary

Health Systems 20/20 Project, Publications

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Health Systems 20/20 Published: 7/1/2012 Resource Description: Health Systems 20/20’s four intermediate results address the financing, governance, operational, and capacity constraints that block access to and use of priority health services. Over the course of the project, eight strategies were developed to address many of these constraints, which undermine the equity, efficiency, quality, and effectiveness of […]

Health Systems Strengthening-PRO Virtual Learning Course Brief

Health Systems 20/20 Project, Publications

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Health Systems 20/20 Published: 7/1/2012 Resource Description: Health Systems Strengthening-PRO is a virtual learning course for professional development. The HSS-PRO series is designed for public health professionals, policymakers, program implementers, and others with a shared interest in working to ensure that all people have access to high quality, equitable, and affordable health services.

Health Sector Public Expenditure Review, 2010/11

Governance and Leadership, Health Finance, Health Systems Research, Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

The main objective of Health Sector Public Expenditure Review for fiscal year (FY) 2011 (PER FY11) was to assess the budgetary allocations and expenditures to inform stakeholders about progress made in key health financing milestones over the 2006/07 – 2011/12 period. Specifically, the Health Sector PER

Preventive Health Sector Assessment: the Current Landscape of Maternal and Child Health Services In Egypt

Family Planning and Reproductive Health, Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Health Systems 20/20 Project, Health Systems Research, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH), Publications

The Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) has undertaken a series of steps to transform and strengthen the financing and delivery of health care services in Egypt. Some of these changes include moving from vertical programs to an integrated Family Health Model (FHM), changing the manner in which services are contracted and paid for, and […]

Building Sustainability into HIV/ AIDS Programs

HIV/AIDS, Publications, Resource Mobilization

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Deborah Dangay, Itamar Katz, Wendy Wong, and Megan Meline Published: 6/1/2012 Resource Description: Sustainability analysis is becoming a requirement in today’s resource-constrained environment. This brief highlights the realities of the HIV/AIDS funding climate and shows how Health Systems 20/20’s HIV/AIDS Program Sustainability Analysis Tool (HAPSAT) can provide the necessary analysis to aid policymakers in […]

Why differentiating between health system support and health system strengthening is needed

Health Systems Research, Publications

There is increasing recognition that efforts to improve global health cannot be achieved without stronger health systems. Interpretation of health system strengthening (HSS) has varied widely however, with much of the focus to-date on alleviating input constraints, whereas less attention has been given to other performance drivers. It is important to distinguish activities that support […]

National Health Accounts Production Tool Brief

Health Systems 20/20, Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA), Tools

Resource Type: Brief, Tool Authors: Douglas Glandon Published: 5/1/2012 Resource Description: The National Health Accounts (NHA) framework is an internationally standardized methodology for measuring financial resource flows in the health sector. NHA is designed to provide health expenditure information to policy makers and stakeholders in ways that can be clearly and directly linked to a country’s health financing concerns and health system performance; therefore, it has […]

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