Resources by The World Bank

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Resource	Description	Requests	Contributor
Take a Walk on the Demand Side 2007	Presentation from Workshop: Vouchers for Health: Increasing Access, Equity, and Quality.	405	The World Bank
Achieving the Twin Objectives of Equity and Quality: Contracting Health Services with the Private Sector 2006	PowerPoint presentation from PSP-One's GHC Expert Panel: Expanding Health Service Access, Quality, and Equity in Developing Countries: The Role of the Private Sector.	745	The World Bank
Public-Private Partnerships: Helping Achieve the Health Goals for Africa (A PowerPoint Presentation) 2006	This is a PowerPoint Presentation created and presented upon the release of a new World Bank report entitled, "Trends and Opportunities in Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Health Service Delivery in Africa".	296	The World Bank
Building Support for Public Private Partnerships for Health Service Delivery in Africa 2006	CRITICAL ISSUES FOR COMMUNICATION: RESULTS FROM A STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION The World Bank commissioned the Center for Development Communication (CDC) to develop a communication strategy to help boost public-private partnerships in the African continent.	1513	The World Bank
Private Participation in Health Services 2005	Private participation in health services is often a controversial issue, although many countries already make use of private services to further aims in health care.	1800	The World Bank
The Indonesia Private Health Sector: Opportunities for Reform 2005	The Indonesian health care system is inadequate to meet the needs of the country’s population. The country’s health indicators are low in comparison those of other ASEAN countries and public health care resources are not sufficient.	1450	The World Bank
Trends and Opportunities in Public-private Partnerships to Improve Health Service Delivery in Africa 2005	The report, in its first part, destroys three common myths regarding the private health care sector in Africa: First, that the private sector is for the rich and the public sector is for the poor; Second, that health is mainly financed by the public sector; and Third, that the private sector is not very developed in most African countries. The second part of this report tries to answer the question, "How to engage the private sector effectively?", with examples of some successful public-private partnerships (PPPs), using the broad definition of PPPs in health as any formal arrangement between government and a private entity established for the purpose of providing health services.	3081	The World Bank
Private sector assessment for health, nutrition and population (HNP) in Bangladesh 2005	The objectives of this Private Sector Assessment (PSA) are to gain a better understanding of the private health care markets in Bangladesh, and to identify areas for increased collaboration between the government, and the private sector.	1585	The World Bank
Money for nothing : the dire straits of medical practice in Delhi, India 2005	The quality of medical care received by patients varies for two reasons: differences in doctors' competence or differences in doctors' incentives. Using medical vignettes, the authors evaluated competence for a sample of doctors in Delhi.	326	The World Bank
Building Support for Public Private Partnerships for Health Service Delivery in Africa: A Communication Strategy 2005	Research suggests that much of health service delivery in Africa is focused on the public sector, even though there is evidence suggesting that much money is being spent by populations on private sector services.	273	The World Bank
A Guide to Competitive Vouchers in Health 2005	This guide identifies the advantages of competitive voucher schemes in delivering subsidies; describes the circumstances under which they are superior to other subsidy mechanisms; and explains how to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate a voucher scheme.	709	The World Bank
Health in the developing world: achieving the Millennium Development Goals 2004	The Millennium Development Goals depend critically on scaling up public health investments in developing countries. As a matter of urgency, developing-country governments must present detailed investment plans that are sufficiently ambitious to meet the goals, and the plans must be inserted into existing donor processes.	1694	The World Bank
Purchasing of Knowledge for Health Gains 2004	The 20th century witnessed a global transformation in human health. Chile’s experience illustrates the magnitude of this transformation. By the mid-1990s Chile’s per capita income had reached about US$4,000 (adjusted for purchasing power), and Chilean women had achieved a life expectancy of 79 years.	1525	The World Bank
Multiple Payers in Health Care: A Framework for Assessment 2004	The starting point of the debate about the pros and cons of multipayer systems is the suspicion that in many health care systems, consumers do not get sufficient value for money.	1695	The World Bank
Risk Pooling in Health Care Financing: The Implications for Health System Performance 2004	Pooling is the health system function whereby collected health revenues are transferred to purchasing organizations. Pooling ensures that the risk related to financing health interventions is borne by all the members of the pool and not by each contributor individually.	1495	The World Bank
Purchasing Basic Health Services in the Community Setting 2004	To achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals, it will be necessary to improve the delivery of health services, particularly to poor people.	245	The World Bank
Pricing Health Services For Purchasers: A Review of Methods and Experiences 2004	This paper reviews methodologies and international experience related to costing and pricing health services. Several factors affect the determination of the prices purchasers pay for health services. These include: the method of provider payment; the availability of information on costs, volumes, outcomes, and patient and provider characteristics; methods used to calculate providers’ costs; and characteristics of purchasers and providers—including the regulatory environment, provider autonomy, negotiating power, and the degree of competition.	1666	The World Bank
Overcoming Barriers to Health Service Access and Influencing the Demand Side Through Purchasing 2004	This paper investigates the role of demand-side barriers in impeding access to the use of health services. Demand-side barriers are defined as determinants of use of health care that are not dependent on service delivery or price or direct price of those services.	1713	The World Bank
Public-Private Partnerships for Health: A Review of Best Practices in the Health Sector 2003	Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have evolved as a result of pressure to ensure quality in providing public services. PPPs pool public and private resources, and capitalize on the skills of the respective sectors to improve the delivery of services.	1522	The World Bank
Franchising in Health: Emerging Models, Experiences, and Challenges in Primary Care 2003	In the past decade a growing number of health franchising schemes have emerged in developing countries. Often reaching tens of thousands of poor households, these private schemes currently provide logistical, managerial, and sometimes financial support to small-scale providers (franchisees) of preventive care, such as family planning and maternal and child health services.	1569	The World Bank