Public Ends, Private Means: Strategic Public Ends, Private Means : Strategic Purchasing of Health Services Reviews

Book Detail
Edition: Alexander S. Preker, Xingzhu Liu , Edit
Release: 2007-04-19
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0821365479
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Great progress has been made in recent years in securing better access and financial protection against the cost of illness through collective financing of health care. Managing scarce resources effectively and efficiently is an important part of this story. Experience has shown that, without strategic policies and focused spending, the poor are likely to get left out. The use of purchasing to enhance public sector performance is well-documented in other sectors. Extension to the health sector of lessons from this experience is now successfully implemented in many developing countries. Public Ends, Private Means: Strategic Purchasing of Value for Money in Health Care is part of a series of World Bank publications on ways to make public spending on health care more efficient and equitable in developing countries. It reviews the underlying economics in terms of agency theory, behavioral science, contract theory, transaction costs, and public choice theory. It provides a synthesis of Download Public Ends, Private Means: Strategic Public Ends, Private Means for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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