Improving Health Sector Performance : : Institutions, Motivations and Incentives - The Cambodia Dialogue /

Improving Health Sector Performance : : Institutions, Motivations and Incentives - The Cambodia Dialogue / / ed. by Hossein Jalilian, Vicheth Sen.

There is growing international evidence that the effectiveness of health services stems primarily from the extent to which the incentives facing providers and consumers are aligned with "better health" objectives. Efficiency in health service provision requires that providers and consumers...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Adams, Orvill,
Annear, Peter Leslie,
Ashton, Toni,
Asquer, Alberto,
Bautista, Maria C. G.,
Brink, E.,
Broesamle, Klaus J.,
Bundeth, Seng,
Hay, Roger,
Hollingsworth, B.,
Hossain, Atia,
Idzerda, Leanne,
Jalilian, Hossein,
Katz, Che,
Keovathanak, Khim,
Lin, V.,
Ly, Sopheap,
Maynard, Alan,
Neath, Net,
Ngo, Thoai D.,
Nonglak, Pagaiya,
Ozawa, Sachiko,
Phalla, Tia,
Ridoutt, L.,
Schmidt, Jean-Olivier,
Sederlof, Hjalte,
Sen, Vicheth,
Sethea, Sok,
Shepherd, Geoffrey,
Smith, Sarah C.,
Soeharno, Rooswanti,
Walker, Damian,
HerausgeberIn:
Jalilian, Hossein,
Sen, Vicheth,
Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (452 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Part I. Overview
  • 1. What Incentives Are Effective in Improving Deployment of Health Workers in Primary Health Care in Asia and the Pacific?
  • 2. Reforming Provider Behaviour through Incentives: Challenges and Reflections from the U.K. Experience
  • Part II. Organizational Arrangements: Purchasing Health Services
  • 3. The Transition to Semi-Autonomous Management of District Health Services in Cambodia: Assessing Purchasing Arrangements, Transaction Costs and Operational Efficiencies of Special Operating Agencies
  • 4. Vouchers as Demand-side Financing Instruments for Health Care: A Review of the Bangladesh Maternal Voucher Scheme and Implications for Incentives for Human Resource Management
  • 5. Social Health Insurance in Cambodia: An Analysis of the Health Care Delivery Mechanism
  • 6. Purchasing Health Services in New Zealand
  • Part III. Optimal Health Workers Contracts
  • 7. A Civil Service That Performs: Primary Health Care in Curitiba, Brazil
  • 8. Increasing Uptake of Reproductive Health Services Using Innovative Financing Models: Experiences of Marie Stopes International
  • 9. Understanding Rural Health Service in Cambodia: Results of a Discrete Choice Experiment
  • 10. Contracting Health Workers to Underserved Areas: Indonesian Approaches to a Distributional Challenge
  • Part IV. Managing Doctors and Nurses
  • 11. How Managers Manage in Cambodia’s Public Health Sector
  • 12. The Impact of Management Training and Education on the Performance of Health Care Providers: What Do We Know?
  • 13. Incentive Systems in Public Health Care Organizations in Italy
  • Part V, Health Service Consumer Behaviour
  • 14. Factors Influencing Health-Seeking Behaviour in Siem Reap: A Qualitative Analysis
  • 15. Villagers’ Evaluation of a Community-based Health Insurance Scheme in Thmar Pouk, Cambodia
  • Appendix
  • INDEX

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