Improving effective coverage in health : do financial incentives work? / Damien de Walque, Eeshani Kandpal, Adam Wagstaff, Jed Friedman, Sven Neelsen, Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen, Anja Sautmann, Gil Shapira, and Ellen Van de Poel.

In many low- and middle-income countries, health coverage has improved dramatically in the last two decades, but health outcomes have not. As such, effective coverage -- a measure of service delivery that meets a minimum standard of quality -- remains unacceptably low. This Policy Research Report ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Walque, Damien de (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC : World Bank Group, [2022]
Series:	Policy research report (World Bank Group)
Subjects:	Managed care plans (Medical care) > Finance. Health facilities > Finance. Merit pay. Health facilities > Finance Managed care plans (Medical care) > Finance Merit pay
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Front Cover
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Overview
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
Introduction
Conclusions
References
Chapter 2 Effective Coverage: A Framework Linking Coverage and Quality
Introduction
Coverage, quality, and effective coverage
Empirical applications
Expanding the work on effective coverage by using data collected in health facilities
Conclusions
Notes
References
Chapter 3 Quality of Care: A Framework for Measurement
Introduction
Theoretical framework for assessing quality of care
Measuring quality of care for research and policy
Conclusions
Notes
References
Chapter 4 Decomposing the Constraints to Quality of Care Using Data on Antenatal Care Consultations from Five Sub-Saharan African Countries
Introduction
Why antenatal care?
Data
Results
Conclusions
Annex 4A: Additional tables and figures
Annex 4B: Data
References
Chapter 5 Performance-Based Financing Improves Coverage of Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health Interventions
Introduction
PBF, health system performance, and health worker effort in theory
Evidence of the impact of PBF on the quality and quantity of health service delivery in LMICs
Impact of PBF on health worker motivation and satisfaction in six countries
Results
PBF, quality of care, and idle capacity
Conclusions
Notes
References
Chapter 6 Policy Alternatives to Performance-Based Financing
Introduction
Systematic review and meta-analysis of demand- and supply-side financial incentives
Comparing the PBF and DFF approaches
PBF, DFF, and institutional deliveries
PBF, DFF, and baseline effort
Complementarities in the PBF and DFF approaches
Discussion and conclusions
Annex 6A: Additional tables
Notes
References
Chapter 7 Performance-Based Financing as a Health System Reform and Cautionary Evidence on Performance Pay and Irrelevant Care
Introduction
Provision of nonindicated treatment in the context of financial incentives
PBF as a health system reform
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 8 Conclusion and Operational Implications
Message 1: Recognize that sustainability is about more than just money
Message 2: Support the four facility financing tenets
Message 3: Understand PBF incentives in a broader health system context
Message 4: Explore opportunities of maturing technologies
Building a forward-looking research agenda
References
Boxes
Box O.1 In Focus: Action items for task teams working on health financing reform
Box 1.1 In Focus: A short history of performance-based financing and the related evaluation agenda
Box 3.1 In Focus: Identifying misuse of care: A case study of malaria treatment in Mali
Box 3.2 In Focus: Measuring quality of care and provider effort in antenatal and maternal care
Box 4.1 In Focus: Exploring the drivers of variation in the content of care.

Improving effective coverage in health : do financial incentives work? / Damien de Walque, Eeshani Kandpal, Adam Wagstaff, Jed Friedman, Sven Neelsen, Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen, Anja Sautmann, Gil Shapira, and Ellen Van de Poel.

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