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Spending wisely : buying health services for the poor
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ISBN: 0821359185 0821359193 9786610156702 1280156708 Year: 2004 Publisher: Washington, DC : World Bank,


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Financing health care in East Asia and the Pacific : best practices and remaining challenges
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ISBN: 0821387367 0821386824 Year: 2011 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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The East Asia and Pacific region is characterized by wide variations in sources of healthcarefinancing, pooling of funds, purchasing of care services, and the extent to which thesepolicy instruments and programs provide social protection. Existing healthcare financingsystems in the region are under increasing pressure from a continued prevalence ofcommunicable diseases, an emergence of non communicable diseases, and a rapidlyaging population.Large inequalities between the poor and the prosperous in their access to healthcarefinancing mechanisms can be reformed and strengthened to improve outco


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Designing and implementing health care provider payment systems : how-to manuals
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ISBN: 1282114727 9786612114724 0821378244 0821378155 Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington DC : World Bank,

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Strategic purchasing of health services involves a continuous search for the best ways to maximize health system performance by deciding which interventions should be purchased, from whom these should be purchased, and how to pay for them. In such an arrangement, the passive cashier is replaced by an intelligent purchaser that can focus scarce resources on existing and emerging priorities rather than continuing entrenched historical spending patterns.Having experimented with different ways of paying providers of health care services, countries increasingly want to know not only what to do when

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