Public Ends, Private Means : Strategic Purchasing of Health Services
Public Ends, Private Means: Strategic purchasing of value for money in health services is part of a series of World Bank publications on ways to make public spending on health care more efficient and equitable in developing countries. It reviews th...
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| Format: | Publication |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/01/7707973/public-ends-private-means-strategic-purchasing-health-services http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6683 |
| Summary: | Public Ends, Private Means: Strategic
purchasing of value for money in health services is part of
a series of World Bank publications on ways to make public
spending on health care more efficient and equitable in
developing countries. It reviews the underlying economics in
terms of agency theory, behavioral science, contract theory,
transaction costs, and public choice theory. It provides a
synthesis of the institutional environment needed for
countries to shift to strategic purchasing, organizational
incentives that need to be in place, and management capacity
that needs to be strengthened. The volume is supplemented
with a CD that presents six regional reviews of current
resource allocation and purchasing (RAP) arrangements. |
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