Recommended reading
- World Bank protecting the vulnerable: the design and implementation of effective safety nets – health insurance for informal sector workers
- ( R. Bitrán; U. Giedion / World Bank , 2003)
- This World Bank paper explores the challenges of providing health insurance in the informal sector and recommends strategies to improve coverage for informal sector workers. The authors highlight seve...
- Contracting out health services in fragile states
- ( N. Palmer; L. Strong; A. Wali; E. Sondorp / London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , 2006)
- This paper, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, discusses the benefits and challenges to contracting out health services to NGOs (non-governmental organisations) in fragile states...
- Discontinuation of cost sharing in Uganda
- ( G.M. Burnham; G. Pariyo; E. Galiwango; F. Wabwire-Mangen / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2004)
- This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), examines the effects of ending cost sharing (user fees) for outpatient services in Uganda, and how this was perceived by h...
- Charting the path to the World Bank's "no blanket policy on user fees"
- ( G. Hutton / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre , 2004)
- This paper, published by the DFID Health Systems Resource Centre (HSRC), describes the rise of user fees as a means of financing health, education, and other public services during the 1980. It then ...
- Understanding the 'demand side' in service delivery: definitions, frameworks and tools from the health sector
- ( H. Standing / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre , 2004)
- This DFID Health Systems Resource Centre paper examines the different understandings of ‘demand side’ in literature, operational and policy perspectives and in international agencies. It maps out the ...
- Reduction of catastrophic health care expenditure by a community based health insurance scheme in Gujarat, India
- ( M. K. Ranson / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2002)
- This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, assesses the performance of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s Medical Insurance Fund in Gujarat, India. Findings show tha...
- Community-based health insurance in developing countries: a study of its contribution to the performance of health financing systems
- ( G. Carrin;M. Waelkens;B. Criel / Tropical Medicine & International Health , 2005)
- The paper published in Tropical Medicine and International Health Journal, studies the potential of community-based health insurance (CHI) to contribute to the performance of financing health systems....
- Pay and non-pay incentives, performance and motivation
- ( V. Hicks;O. Adams / Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp , 2003)
- This chapter in the book ‘Towards a Global Health Workforce Strategy’ provides an overview of the current evidence on the effect of pay and non-pay incentives on health workers’ perf...
