Improving Health Sector Performance: Institutions, Motivations and Incentives - The Cambodia Dialogue

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Institutions, Motivations and Incentives - The Cambodia Dialogue

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Edited by Hossein Jalilian, Vicheth Sen

Publisher:: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
Online publication date:: October 2015
Print publication year:: 2011
Online ISBN:: 9789814311854

Subjects:: Organisational Sociology, Sociology
Series:: Indochina Unit

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There is growing international evidence that the effectiveness of health services stems primarily from the extent to which the incentives facing providers and consumers are aligned with "better health" objectives. Efficiency in health service provision requires that providers and consumers have incentives to use healthcare resources in ways that generate the maximum health gains. Equity in at least one sense requires that consumers requiring the same care are treated equally, irrespective of their ability to pay. Efficiency in the use of health services requires that consumers are knowledgeable about the services on offer and which are most appropriate to their needs. Although these principles are enshrined in the design of every health system in the world, they have proven extremely difficult to apply in practice. Healthcare providers have financial obligations to their families as well as professional obligations to their patients. Health service consumers generally lack information about both their health and health services so that they under-consume or over-consume healthcare. The papers in this volume are selected from an international conference organized by the CDRI, Cambodia that tried to deal with some of these issues. With participation of international and local experts, it aimed at collecting major experiences and innovative solutions from inside and outside the country to improve health sector performance, with particular focus on institutions, motivations and incentives.

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Institutions, Motivations and Incentives - The Cambodia Dialogue

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Foreword
pp xi-xii

List of Contributors
pp xiii-xvi

Introduction
pp xvii-xx

Part I - Overview
pp 1-2

1 - What Incentives Are Effective in Improving Deployment of Health Workers in Primary Health Care in Asia and the Pacific?
pp 3-18

2 - Reforming Provider Behaviour through Incentives: Challenges and Reflections from the U.K. Experience
pp 19-42

Part II - Organizational Arrangements: Purchasing Health Services
pp 43-44

3 - The Transition to Semi-Autonomous Management of District Health Services in Cambodia: Assessing Purchasing Arrangements, Transaction Costs and Operational Efficiencies of Special Operating Agencies
pp 45-75

4 - Vouchers as Demand-side Financing Instruments for Health Care: A Review of the Bangladesh Maternal Voucher Scheme and Implications for Incentives for Human Resource Management
pp 76-100

5 - Social Health Insurance in Cambodia: An Analysis of the Health Care Delivery Mechanism
pp 101-135

6 - Purchasing Health Services in New Zealand
pp 136-148

Part III - Optimal Health Workers Contracts
pp 149-150

7 - A Civil Service That Performs: Primary Health Care in Curitiba, Brazil
pp 151-183

8 - Increasing Uptake of Reproductive Health Services Using Innovative Financing Models: Experiences of Marie Stopes International
pp 184-201

9 - Understanding Rural Health Service in Cambodia: Results of a Discrete Choice Experiment
pp 202-247

10 - Contracting Health Workers to Underserved Areas: Indonesian Approaches to a Distributional Challenge
pp 248-262

Part IV - Managing Doctors and Nurses
pp 263-264

11 - How Managers Manage in Cambodia's Public Health Sector
pp 265-303

12 - The Impact of Management Training and Education on the Performance of Health Care Providers: What Do We Know?
pp 304-327

13 - Incentive Systems in Public Health Care Organizations in Italy
pp 328-350

Part V - Health Service Consumer Behaviour
pp 351-352

14 - Factors Influencing Health-Seeking Behaviour in Siem Reap: A Qualitative Analysis
pp 353-364

15 - Villagers’ Evaluation of a Community-based Health Insurance Scheme in Thmar Pouk, Cambodia
pp 365-384

APPENDIX
pp 385-386

Health Equity Funds Implemented by URC and Supported by USAID
pp 387-419

Index
pp 420-429

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