TY - BOOK ID - 11275129 TI - Good practice in health financing : lessons from reforms in low and middle-income countries AU - Gottret, Pablo E. AU - Schieber, George. AU - Waters, Hugh. AU - World Bank. PY - 2008 SN - 0821375113 9786611744656 1281744654 0821375121 PB - Washington, DC : World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Medical care. KW - Medical care KW - Health care reform KW - Medical policy KW - Medical care, Cost of KW - Health status indicators KW - Social Sciences KW - Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation KW - Publication Formats KW - Costs and Cost Analysis KW - Patient Care Management KW - Health Policy KW - International Cooperation KW - Health Planning KW - Internationality KW - Public Policy KW - Publication Characteristics KW - Health Care Economics and Organizations KW - Health Services Administration KW - Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena KW - Health Care KW - Social Control Policies KW - Policy KW - Social Control, Formal KW - Sociology KW - Health Care Costs KW - Statistics KW - Developing Countries KW - Health Care Reform KW - Health Expenditures KW - Economics KW - Delivery of Health Care KW - Finance KW - Economic aspects KW - Finance. KW - Health reform KW - Health system reform KW - Healthcare reform KW - Medical care reform KW - Reform of health care delivery KW - Reform of medical care delivery KW - Delivery of health care KW - Delivery of medical care KW - Health care KW - Health care delivery KW - Health services KW - Healthcare KW - Medical and health care industry KW - Medical services KW - Personal health services KW - Health indicators KW - Health status indexes KW - Indexes, Health status KW - Indicators, Health status KW - Cost of medical care KW - Health care costs KW - Health care expenditures KW - Medical costs KW - Medical expenses KW - Medical service, Cost of KW - Medicine KW - Health care policy KW - Health policy KW - Medicine and state KW - Policy, Medical KW - Public health KW - Public health policy KW - State and medicine KW - Costs KW - Government policy KW - Health insurance KW - Health KW - Health surveys KW - Medical statistics KW - Quality of life KW - Social indicators KW - Medical economics KW - Medical savings accounts KW - Science and state KW - Social policy KW - Methodology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11275129 AB - For humanitarian reasons and the concern for households' economic and health security, the health sector is at the center of global development policy. Developing countries and the international community are scaling up health systems to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and are improving financial protection by securing long-term support for these gains. Yet money alone cannot buy health gains or prevent impoverishment due to catastrophic medical bills; well structured, results-based financing reforms are needed. Unfortunately, global evidence of "successful" health financing policy ER -