Tag Archives: Sharon Nakhimovsky

Governing for Better Quality Health Care in Low and Middle Income Countries: Promising Practices

Resource Type: Technical Brief Authors: Altea Cico, Kelley Laird, Lisa Tarantino and Sharon Nakhimovsky Published: September 2018 Resource Description: This technical brief provides policy makers in low and middle income countries (LMIC) with an innovative way to view and exercise their governance role in the health system to improve the quality of health services. It is a departure […]

Strategic Health Purchasing Progress: A Framework for Policymakers and Practitioners

Resource Type: Publication Authors: Cheryl Cashin, Sharon Nakhimovsky, Kelley Laird, Tihomir Strizrep, Altea Cico, Sharmini Radakrishnan, Ali Lauer, Catherine Connor, Sheila O’Dougherty, James White, and Katie Hammer Published: September 2018 Resource Description: Making progress toward universal health coverage (UHC) can seem costly to governments, whose resources and stewardship are needed to make change equitable (WHO 2010). Expanding coverage […]

Integrating Financing of Vertical Health Programs: Lessons from Kyrgyzstan and the Philippines

Resource Type: Publication Authors: Health Finance and Governance Project Published: September 2018 Resource Description: For better or worse, many low- and middle- income countries inherited vertical programs in which programming, financing, governance, and service delivery are all organized around an individual disease.  Governments must now decide whether a new government-managed financing scheme such as national or social health […]

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Advances in Health Finance & Governance: Knowledge and Learning Briefs

  The Advances in Health Finance & Governance Knowledge & Learning Brief Series is designed to highlight learning and lessons from the HFG project in nine core areas: domestic resource mobilization, strategic health purchasing, health financing strategies, expanding coverage through health insurance, financial data for decision making, governance, institutional capacity building, workforce and efficiency, and building […]

Securing Domestic Financing for Universal Health Coverage: Lessons in Process

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Sharon Nakhimovsky and Elaine Baruwa Published: January 2018 Resource Description: Demand for health care is growing and external support is becoming more uncertain. Consequently, domestic resource mobilization (DRM) for health has emerged as an important topic in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This brief articulates the lessons learned by USAID’s Health Finance […]

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