PHA-Exchange> Buying results? Contracting for health service delivery in developing countries

[Claudio]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) 

Buying results? Contracting for health service delivery in developing countries

            Benjamin Loevinsohn  and April Harding  - World Bank
            The Lancet DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67140-1

            Volume 366, Number 9486, 20 August 2005      (Registration is FREE)

 

            Website: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673605671401/fulltext 







"...To achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals, the delivery of health services will need to improve. Contracting with non-state entities, including non-governmental organisations (NGOs), has been proposed as a means for improving health care delivery, and the global experience with such contracts is reviewed here. The ten investigated examples indicate that contracting for the delivery of primary care can be very effective and that improvements can be rapid. 

These results were achieved in various settings and services. Many of the anticipated difficulties with contracting were either not observed in practice or did not compromise contracting's effectiveness. Seven of the nine cases with sufficient experience (greater than 3 years' elapsed experience) have been sustained and expanded. Provision of a package of basic services by contractors costs between roughly US$3 and US$6 per head per year in low-income countries. Contracting for health service delivery should be expanded and future efforts must include rigorous evaluations.[au] .."



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Claudio

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