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Public Ends, Private Means
Alexander S. Preker
其他書名
Strategic Purchasing of Health Services
出版
World Bank
, 2007
主題
Business & Economics / Industries / General
Medical / General
Medical / Health Care Delivery
Medical / Health Policy
Medical / Practice Management & Reimbursement
Political Science / Public Policy / Health Care
Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries
ISBN
0821365487
9780821365489
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dA0fAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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 Services 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 the institutional environment needed for countries to shift to strategic purchasing, organizational incentives that need to be in place, and management capacity that needs to be strengthened. The volume is supplemented with a CD that presents six regional reviews of current resource allocation and purchasing (RAP) arrangements.