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Using Supply-side Pay for Performance to Strengthen Health Prevention Activities and Improve Efficiency: The Case of Belize

Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Human Resources for Health, Publications

Resource Type: Case Study Authors: Michelle Vanzie, Natasha Hsi, Alix Beith, and Rena Eichler Published: 7/23/2010 Resource Description: Supply-side pay for performance (P4P) in Belize consists of monthly capitation payments, discounted based on achievement of monthly performance indicators by contracted public and private primary health care clinics, plus annual performance awards to the clinics. The goal of the […]

Pay for Performance: Improving Maternal Health Services in Pakistan

Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Human Resources for Health, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH), Publications

Resource Type: Case Study Authors: Hamid Bashir, Sarfaraz Kazmi, Rena Eichler, Alix Beith, and Ellie Brown Published: 6/14/2010 Resource Description: Pay for performance (P4P) in Pakistan consists of supply-side payments to providers and demand-side vouchers that subsidize the costs of a package of reproductive health care services and transportation for poor women. The aim is to reduce maternal […]

Health Insurance Handbook: How to Make it Work

Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Health Systems 20/20, Publications, Tools

Resource Type: Tool Authors: Hong Wang, Kimberly Switlick, Christine Ortiz, Catherine Connor, and Beatriz Zurita Published: 6/1/2010 Resource Description: The Health Insurance Handbook provides policymakers and health insurance designers with practical, action-oriented support to deepen their understanding of health insurance concepts, help them identify design and implementation challenges, and define realistic steps for the development and scaling up […]

Pay-for-Performance in Brazil: UNIMED-Belo Horizonte Physician Cooperation

Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Human Resources for Health, Publications

Resource Type: Case Study Authors: Paulo Borem, Estevão Alves Valle, Monica Silva Monteiro De Castro, Ronaldo Kenzou Fujii, Ana Luiza de Oliveira Farias, Fabio Leite Gastal, and Catherine Connor Published: 5/24/2010 Resource Description: This case study presents the initial results of the pay-for-performance (P4P) experience of UNIMED-Belo Horizonte (UBH), a private, nonprofit organization in Brazil. UBH is both […]

Vouchers for Health: Increasing Utilization of Facility-based Family Planning and Safe Motherhood Services in Kenya

Family Planning and Reproductive Health, Health Finance, Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH), Publications

Resource Type: Case Study Authors: Ben Bellows, Matthew Hamilton, and Francis Kundu Published: 5/24/2010 Resource Description: This case study describes a Kenyan demand- and supply- side pay-for performance (P4P) scheme that uses vouchers as a means to reduce maternal and child mortality. Subsidized vouchers are targeted to poor women, enabling increased access to a range of safe motherhood and family planning services. […]

Maternal Health in Ghana: Investigating the Impact of the National Health Insurance Scheme on Maternal Health Indicators

Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH), Publications

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Laurel Hatt, Slavea Chankova, and Sara Sulzbach Published: 4/1/2009 Resource Description: To address economic barriers to skilled delivery care, policymakers have begun experimenting with health financing interventions such as vouchers and health insurance. Ghana, for example, has passed legislation to establish a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) which provides free antenatal and facility-based delivery […]

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