UID:
almafu_9958094684202883
Format:
xvii, 318 pages :
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illustrations ;
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23 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-54258-6
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9786610542581
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0-8213-6586-X
Series Statement:
World Bank e-Library.
Content:
This overview of health financing tools, policies and trends--with a particular focus on challenges facing developing countries--provides the basis for effective policy-making. Analyzing the current global environment, the book discusses health financing goals in the context of both the underlying health, demographic, social, economic, political and demographic analytics as well as the institutional realities faced by developing countries, and assesses policy options in the context of global evidence, the international aid architecture, cross-sectoral interactions, and countries' macroeconomic
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Overview; 1 Health transitions, disease burdens, and health expenditure patterns; Figures; Tables; 2 Collecting revenue, pooling risk, and purchasing services; Boxes; 3 Risk pooling mechanisms; 4 External assistance for health; 5 Improving health outcomes; 6 Increasing the efficiency of government spending; 7 Financing health in low-income countries; 8 Financing health in middle-income countries; 9 Financing health in high-income countries; Index
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Also available online.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-6585-1
Language:
English
URL:
http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-0-8213-6585-4
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