UID:
almafu_9958095282802883
Format:
xxii, 321 pages :
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illustrations ;
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26 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-11472-7
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9786612114724
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0-8213-7824-4
Series Statement:
World Bank e-Library.
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; Glossary; Overview: What, How, and Who: An Introduction to Provider Payment Systems; Boxes; Tables; Figures; 1. Primary Health Care Per Capita Payment Systems; Screenshots; 2. Case-Based Hospital Payment Systems; 3. Hospital Global Budgeting; 4. A Primer on Contracting; 5. Health Management Information Systems: Linking Purchasers and Providers; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-7815-5
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
URL:
http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-0-8213-7815-1
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