Performance-Based Financing as a Health System Reform : Mapping the Key Dimensions for Monitoring and Evaluation

Performance-based financing is increasingly being applied in a variety of contexts, with the expectation that it can improve the performance of health systems. However, while there is a growing literature on implementation issues and effects on outputs, there has been relatively little focus on inte...

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Main Authors: Witter, Sophie, Toonen, Jurrien, Meessen, Bruno, Kagubare, Jean, Fritsche, György, Vaughan, Kelsey
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: BioMed Central 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23158
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spelling okr-10986-231582021-04-23T14:04:13Z Performance-Based Financing as a Health System Reform : Mapping the Key Dimensions for Monitoring and Evaluation Witter, Sophie Toonen, Jurrien Meessen, Bruno Kagubare, Jean Fritsche, György Vaughan, Kelsey performance-based financing health systems reforms monitoring and evaluation M & E Performance-based financing is increasingly being applied in a variety of contexts, with the expectation that it can improve the performance of health systems. However, while there is a growing literature on implementation issues and effects on outputs, there has been relatively little focus on interactions between PBF and health systems and how these should be studied. This paper aims to contribute to filling that gap by developing a framework for assessing the interactions between PBF and health systems, focusing on low and middle income countries. In doing so, it elaborates a general framework for monitoring and evaluating health system reforms in general. 2015-11-30T20:12:20Z 2015-11-30T20:12:20Z 2013-09-29 Journal Article BMC Health Services Research http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23158 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank BioMed Central Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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topic performance-based financing
health systems reforms
monitoring and evaluation
M & E
spellingShingle performance-based financing
health systems reforms
monitoring and evaluation
M & E
Witter, Sophie
Toonen, Jurrien
Meessen, Bruno
Kagubare, Jean
Fritsche, György
Vaughan, Kelsey
Performance-Based Financing as a Health System Reform : Mapping the Key Dimensions for Monitoring and Evaluation
description Performance-based financing is increasingly being applied in a variety of contexts, with the expectation that it can improve the performance of health systems. However, while there is a growing literature on implementation issues and effects on outputs, there has been relatively little focus on interactions between PBF and health systems and how these should be studied. This paper aims to contribute to filling that gap by developing a framework for assessing the interactions between PBF and health systems, focusing on low and middle income countries. In doing so, it elaborates a general framework for monitoring and evaluating health system reforms in general.
format Journal Article
author Witter, Sophie
Toonen, Jurrien
Meessen, Bruno
Kagubare, Jean
Fritsche, György
Vaughan, Kelsey
author_facet Witter, Sophie
Toonen, Jurrien
Meessen, Bruno
Kagubare, Jean
Fritsche, György
Vaughan, Kelsey
author_sort Witter, Sophie
title Performance-Based Financing as a Health System Reform : Mapping the Key Dimensions for Monitoring and Evaluation
title_short Performance-Based Financing as a Health System Reform : Mapping the Key Dimensions for Monitoring and Evaluation
title_full Performance-Based Financing as a Health System Reform : Mapping the Key Dimensions for Monitoring and Evaluation
title_fullStr Performance-Based Financing as a Health System Reform : Mapping the Key Dimensions for Monitoring and Evaluation
title_full_unstemmed Performance-Based Financing as a Health System Reform : Mapping the Key Dimensions for Monitoring and Evaluation
title_sort performance-based financing as a health system reform : mapping the key dimensions for monitoring and evaluation
publisher BioMed Central
publishDate 2015
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23158
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