Performance-based financing: just a donor fad or a catalyst towards comprehensive health-care reform?
Performance-based financing is generating a heated debate. Some suggest that it may be a donor fad with limited potential to improve service delivery. Most of its critics view it solely as a provider payment mechanism. Our experience is that performance-based financing can catalyse comprehensive ref...
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| description | Performance-based financing is generating a heated debate. Some suggest that it may be a donor fad with limited potential to improve service delivery. Most of its critics view it solely as a provider payment mechanism. Our experience is that performance-based financing can catalyse comprehensive reforms and help address structural problems of public health services, such as low responsiveness, inefficiency and inequity. The emergence of a performance-based financing movement in Africa suggests that it may contribute to profoundly transforming the public sectors of low-income countries. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-79311d920eb841ce9ba3501d258071fe2024-03-03T02:48:10ZengThe World Health OrganizationBulletin of the World Health Organization0042-968689215315610.1590/S0042-96862011000200015S0042-96862011000200015Performance-based financing: just a donor fad or a catalyst towards comprehensive health-care reform?Bruno Meessen0Agnès Soucat1Claude Sekabaraga2Institute of Tropical MedicineThe World BankThe World BankPerformance-based financing is generating a heated debate. Some suggest that it may be a donor fad with limited potential to improve service delivery. Most of its critics view it solely as a provider payment mechanism. Our experience is that performance-based financing can catalyse comprehensive reforms and help address structural problems of public health services, such as low responsiveness, inefficiency and inequity. The emergence of a performance-based financing movement in Africa suggests that it may contribute to profoundly transforming the public sectors of low-income countries.http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862011000200015&lng=en&tlng=en |
| spellingShingle | Bruno Meessen Agnès Soucat Claude Sekabaraga Performance-based financing: just a donor fad or a catalyst towards comprehensive health-care reform? Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
| title | Performance-based financing: just a donor fad or a catalyst towards comprehensive health-care reform? |
| title_full | Performance-based financing: just a donor fad or a catalyst towards comprehensive health-care reform? |
| title_fullStr | Performance-based financing: just a donor fad or a catalyst towards comprehensive health-care reform? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Performance-based financing: just a donor fad or a catalyst towards comprehensive health-care reform? |
| title_short | Performance-based financing: just a donor fad or a catalyst towards comprehensive health-care reform? |
| title_sort | performance based financing just a donor fad or a catalyst towards comprehensive health care reform |
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