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Spending Wisely Buying Health Services for the Poor

Paperback • 2005 • English • 1. edition

Spending Wisely Buying Health Services for the Poor

By Alexander S. Preker, Jack Langenbrunner

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About the book

With a special focus on strategic purchasing and contracting of services from nongovernmental providers, 'Spending Wisely' reviews ways to make public spending on health care more efficient and equitable in developing countries. The underlying premise is that it is necessary to separate the function of financing from service delivery to improve public sector performance and accountability. In moving from passive budgeting to active purchasing of health care, the authors recommend policymakers as...Show more

Public health and preventive medicine

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ISBN

9780821359181

Publisher

World Bank Publications

Published year

2005

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Spending Wisely Buying Health Services for the Poor

Format

Paperback

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