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Prepaid Financing Of Primary Health Care In Guinea Bissau
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Book Synopsis Prepaid Financing of Primary Health Care in Guinea-Bissau by : Per Eklund
Download or read book Prepaid Financing of Primary Health Care in Guinea-Bissau written by Per Eklund and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flat- fee prepayment may be the only feasible cost recovery scheme for primary health care in rural villages of Guinea-Bissau. The level of satisfaction was high in this simple prepayment scheme of drugs and limited primary health care in 18 villages. In a larger health system or an urban area, it might be more difficult to administer such a scheme and to prevent abuse of the system.
Book Synopsis Health Financing for Poor People by : Alexander S. Preker
Download or read book Health Financing for Poor People written by Alexander S. Preker and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most urgent development challenges facing many low and middle income countries is the need for adequate financing systems to pay for health care provision to the estimated 1.3 billion impoverished people living in rural areas or working in the informal sector in urban areas. This publication considers ways of improving the financing of health care at low income levels, as part of a global strategy for increased investment in health and poverty reduction. Topics discussed include: global and regional trends in healthcare financing; strengths and weaknesses of community-based health financing, and experiences in Asia and Africa; country case studies using household survey analysis from Senegal, Rwanda, India and Thailand; deficit financing; and the impact of risk sharing on achieving health system goals.
Book Synopsis Cost Recovery in Public Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Brian Nolan
Download or read book Cost Recovery in Public Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Brian Nolan and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes and evaluates the ways in which user-fees are currently implemented to finance public health services in Sub- Saharan Africa. It presents the main issues that arise in assessing cost recovery through user fees and evaluates experiences to date. The authors highlight variety of practices encountered in different countries, the too common failure to structure charges so as to promote efficient use, and the lack of effective exemption structures for protecting the poor. The study thoroughly reviews standard cost recovery models and describes an initiative launched in Bamako, Mali, in 1987. Issues, experience, and conclusions are drawn from a sample of 38 countries.
Book Synopsis Innovations in Health Care Financing by : George Schieber
Download or read book Innovations in Health Care Financing written by George Schieber and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish edition. World Bank Technical Paper No. 345S. This report examines specific policies for achieving sustainable development of the mining industry in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The report highlights the importance of the mining sector to national economies of the region and discusses World Bank assistance in formulating policy. Also available in English: (ISBN 0-8213-3816-1) Stock no. 13816.
Book Synopsis Health Insurance Handbook by : Hong Wang
Download or read book Health Insurance Handbook written by Hong Wang and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many countries that subscribe to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have committed to ensuring access to basic health services for their citizens. Health insurance has been considered and promoted as the major financing mechanism to improve access to health services, as well to provide financial risk protection.
Book Synopsis Education for Community Health by : Francis Sarr
Download or read book Education for Community Health written by Francis Sarr and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a thorough and critical account of the theories and concepts of community health education in an increasingly networked era. It examines basic concepts in education for community health; in-depth understanding of concepts such as learning space design, ICT, pedagogy and curriculum design and types of learning. It discusses professional development and development of teaching and learning centres in community health and implications of the concepts for education in community health in the developing world. Francis Sarr is Associate Professor of Community Health Education at the University of The Gambia.
Book Synopsis Patents and Pharmaceutical Drugs by : Julio J. Nogués
Download or read book Patents and Pharmaceutical Drugs written by Julio J. Nogués and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lengthen effective patent protection in industrial countries and press developing countries to introduce patent protection. These two tactics have become important parts of the R&D-intensive pharmaceutical industry's strategy to regain losses in market share associated with more stringent drug safety regulations and increased competition from generic drug companies.
Book Synopsis Health Insurance in Zaire by : Donald S. Shepard
Download or read book Health Insurance in Zaire written by Donald S. Shepard and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth study of health insurance schemes in Zaire recommends developing more pilot insurance systems in areas where health systems already function - and strengthening existing systems through training, exchange visits, information systems, and technical assistance. Implementing a nationwide health insurance system is not likely to be as successful as decentralized, locally managed plans.
Book Synopsis Alleviating Transitory Food Crisis in Africa by : Victor Lavy
Download or read book Alleviating Transitory Food Crisis in Africa written by Victor Lavy and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food aid compensates for up to half the drop in food production during food crises in Sub-Saharan Africa; imports make up another 30 percent. Both stabilize food consumption and neutralize the effects of random shocks to domestic food production.
Book Synopsis The Childbearing Family in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Odile Frank
Download or read book The Childbearing Family in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Odile Frank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sub-Saharan Africa has not joined the global demographic transition. Africa's eventual transition to fertility decline may depend more than it has elsewhere on functional changes in the family and changes in the family structure.
Book Synopsis Poverty in Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia in the Years of Crisis, 1978-87 by : Branko Milanovic
Download or read book Poverty in Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia in the Years of Crisis, 1978-87 written by Branko Milanovic and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Coordinated Reform of Tariffs and Domestic Indirect Taxes by : Pradeep Mitra
Download or read book The Coordinated Reform of Tariffs and Domestic Indirect Taxes written by Pradeep Mitra and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tariff reform for trade liberalization must be seen as part of a broader program of tax reform. Custom duties on imports should be geared chiefly to protection. Reductions in such duties to promote an outward- oriented development strategy should be offset by increases in sales/value- added taxes applied equally to imports and domestic production. That would maintain public revenues and avoid exacerbating macroeconomic dificulties.
Book Synopsis Health Insurance Schemes for People Outside Formal Sector Employment by : Sara Bennett
Download or read book Health Insurance Schemes for People Outside Formal Sector Employment written by Sara Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses 82 health insurance schemes in terms of their membership and coverage, financing, administration and fund management, how providers were paid and the mechanisms for providing health care.
Book Synopsis Applying Tax Policy Models in Country Economic Work by : Henrik Dahl
Download or read book Applying Tax Policy Models in Country Economic Work written by Henrik Dahl and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applications of general equilibrium models to different problems arising in tax policy - such as identifying desirable tax bases in Bangladesh, analyzing price controls in China, and coordinating tax- cum- tariff reform in India - show how useful they can be in supplementing more qualitative judgements. But they are useful only if substantial effort is devoted to establishing a consistent data set and to choosing the structure of the model in a way that makes its behavior consistent with what good economic analysis would suggest.
Book Synopsis Creating the Reform-resistant Dependent Economy by : Arye L. Hillman
Download or read book Creating the Reform-resistant Dependent Economy written by Arye L. Hillman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the CMEA system of international trade affected enterprise incentives and inhibited market-oriented domestic reform in the Eastern European socialist economies.
Book Synopsis Projecting Fertility for All Countries by : Eduard R. Bos
Download or read book Projecting Fertility for All Countries written by Eduard R. Bos and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A RMSM-X Model for Chile by : Luis Serven
Download or read book A RMSM-X Model for Chile written by Luis Serven and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple macroeconomic model is applied to macroeconomic data for Chile.
