Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems Bridging Health and Finance Perspectives

Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems Bridging Health and Finance Perspectives

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2015-09-24

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9264233385

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The health systems we enjoy today, and expected medical advances in the future, will be difficult to finance from public resources without major reforms. Public health spending in OECD countries has grown rapidly over most of the last half century. These spending increases have contributed to ...


Sustainable Health Care Financing in Southern Africa

Sustainable Health Care Financing in Southern Africa

Author: Allison Beattie

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780821341452

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World Bank Discussion Paper No. 385. Since the advent of reform in 1992, the Russian authorities have made substantial strides toward creating a market economy through privatization. Recently, Russian authorities have established an institutional framework for a case-by-case approach that ensures transparency and competition through the use of independent financial and other advisers. This paper contains the principal presentations made at a World Bank workshop on the lessons of international experience in case-by-case privatization.


Healthy Partnerships

Healthy Partnerships

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Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0821384732

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Since the private health sector is an important, and often dominant, provider of health services in Sub-Saharan Africa, it is the job of governments as the stewards of the health system to engage with it. Increasing the contributions that the existing private health sector is making to public health is an important, but often neglected, element of meeting the daunting health-related challenges facing African nations. This Report presents newly collected data on how and how effectively each country in the Africa region is engaging the respective private health sectors; and how the engagement compares across the region. While the approach taken by governments varies greatly between countries, there is much room for improvement in the Africa region overall to engage more effectively and room for exchange of ideas and good practices on how to do so. Improved solutions on the policy/regulatory side should be supported by effective organization of the private sector itself and by adjustments in donor programs that take the dynamics of the private health sector better into account.


Social Health Insurance

Social Health Insurance

Author: World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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Health development in countries of Asia and the Pacific is constantly facing new challenges but financial constraints prevent people from seeking timely health care and completing the treatment regimen. Many countries in Asia and the Pacific have introduced cost recovery by charging for publicly provided health services and the share of private financing in total health care spending has significantly increased in the past two decades. However such reforms were carried out without adequate measures to protect the poor and private out-of-pocket financing is an inequitable and inefficient way of funding health services. There has thus been growing interest in health insurance not only as a financing mechanism, but also as an effective social safety net. This publication is the outcome of joint efforts by the WHO Regional Offices for the Western Pacific and South-East Asia, the Asian Development Bank, and health care financing experts in the two regions. By the use of case studies it documents regional experiences in health care financing arrangements through prepayment, with critical analysis on factors linked to success, failures and lessons learnt in various socioeconomic settings. While experiences from 12 selected countries have been highlighted, the lessons are relevant for all countries in Asia and the Pacific. The publication will therefore be useful for policy makers and for international development partners undertaking technical assistance in the field of social security and social health insurance.


Collaborative capacity development to complement stroke rehabilitation in Africa

Collaborative capacity development to complement stroke rehabilitation in Africa

Author: Quinette Louw

Publisher: AOSIS

Published: 2020-12-31

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 1928523862

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This scholarly book focuses on stroke in Africa. Stroke is a leading cause of disability among adults of all ages, contributing significantly to health care costs related to long term implications, particularly if rehabilitation is sub-optimal. Given the burden of stroke in Africa, there is a need for a book that focuses on functioning African stroke survivors and the implications for rehabilitation within the African context. In addition, there is a need to progress with contextualised, person-centred, evidence-based guidance for the rehabilitation of people with stroke in Africa, thereby enabling them to lead socially and economically meaningful lives. The research incorporated in the book used a range of primary and secondary methodological approaches (scoping reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, descriptive studies, surveys, health economics, and clinical practice guideline methodology) to shed new insights into African-centred issues and strategies to optimise function post-stroke.


Financing Health Services in Developing Countries

Financing Health Services in Developing Countries

Author: John S. Akin

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780821309001

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This report discusses several different approaches that support reforming health care services in developing countries. For some time now, health care services have been supported by government funds. As demands for improving health care services continue to increase additional demands will be placed on governments to respond. This, however, will not be easy. Slow economic growth and record budget deficits in the 1980's have forced reductions in public spending. Alternative approaches to finance health care services are needed. Such possible changes could involve: decentralization of federal government involvement; the promotion of nongovernment involvement; the imposition of user fees; and, establishing health insurance. Finally, the role of the Bank in pursuing new financing strategies is discussed.


Health Systems Financing

Health Systems Financing

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9241564024

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"This World Health Report was produced under the overall direction of Carissa Etienne ... and Anarfi Asamoa Baah ... The principal writers were David B. Evans ... [et al] -- t.p. verso.


Modelling in Health Care Finance

Modelling in Health Care Finance

Author: Michael Cichon

Publisher: International Labour Organization

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9789221108627

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In straightforward, non-technical language, the book demystifies the modelling process and provides step-by-step guidance, demonstrating how managers and policy-makers can best make use of models in the formation of health policy goals, the identification of options, and the analysis and implementation of results.


Communicable Diseases in Southern Africa

Communicable Diseases in Southern Africa

Author: Elma W. Kortenbout

Publisher: Pearson South Africa

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781770255258

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The CD-ROM contains case studies, questions and answers, visual references and useful additional material.


Advocacy for Mental Health

Advocacy for Mental Health

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 9241545909

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This volume is part of a series of publications which contain practical guidance to assist policy-makers and planners in member countries with policy development to address public mental health needs and service provision. This volume highlights the importance of advocacy in mental health policy and service development, a relatively new concept, aimed at reducing stigma and discrimination, and promoting the human rights of people with mental disorders. It considers the roles of various mental health groups in advocacy and sets out practical steps for implementation, indicating how governments can support advocacy services. The full package of eight volumes in the series is also available (ISBN 0119894173).