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Output-Based Aid in Health : The Argentine Maternal-Child Health Insurance Program
dc.contributor.author | Johannes, Lars | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-13T13:56:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-08-13T13:56:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | This newsletter describes how the Argentine Maternal-Child Health Insurance Program uses an interesting approach of combining output-based contracting with an output-based funding mechanism. Particularly innovative is the combination of enrollment numbers and performance indicators as a way to address the tradeoff between quantity and quality. The program's transfer of performance risks to health service purchasing units and service providers helps increase accountability and the program design has also allowed the government to introduce significant structural changes to the health system at provincial level such as linking financing to results (service delivery and outcomes), implement output and quality information systems with regular audits, improve costing and pricing capacity, and establish performance based incentives for health personnel. The paper gives conclusions and touches on how the achievements so far show the advantages of the concept of combining output-based contracting with output-based funding. | en |
dc.identifier | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/03/7557892/output-based-aid-health-argentine-maternal-child-health-insurance-program | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11033 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.publisher | World Bank, Washington, DC | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | OBApproaches; Note No. 13 | |
dc.rights | CC BY 3.0 IGO | |
dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ | |
dc.subject | ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE | |
dc.subject | BASIC HEALTH SERVICES | |
dc.subject | CAPITA HEALTH SPENDING | |
dc.subject | CERTIFICATION | |
dc.subject | CHILD CARE | |
dc.subject | CHILD HEALTH | |
dc.subject | CHOICE OF PROVIDER | |
dc.subject | CITIZENS | |
dc.subject | DELIVERY CARE | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPING COUNTRIES | |
dc.subject | DIAGNOSIS | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC GROWTH | |
dc.subject | EMPLOYMENT | |
dc.subject | FEE FOR SERVICE | |
dc.subject | FEE-FOR-SERVICE | |
dc.subject | FEE-FOR-SERVICE PAYMENT | |
dc.subject | FINANCIAL INCENTIVES | |
dc.subject | HEALTH CARE | |
dc.subject | HEALTH CARE FACILITIES | |
dc.subject | HEALTH CARE SYSTEM | |
dc.subject | HEALTH COVERAGE | |
dc.subject | HEALTH INDICATORS | |
dc.subject | HEALTH INSURANCE | |
dc.subject | HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM | |
dc.subject | HEALTH INSURANCE SYSTEM | |
dc.subject | HEALTH MAINTENANCE | |
dc.subject | HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS | |
dc.subject | HEALTH PROGRAMS | |
dc.subject | HEALTH SECTOR | |
dc.subject | HEALTH SERVICE | |
dc.subject | HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDERS | |
dc.subject | HEALTH SERVICES | |
dc.subject | HEALTH SYSTEM | |
dc.subject | HOSPITALS | |
dc.subject | IMMUNIZATION | |
dc.subject | INCENTIVES FOR EFFICIENCY | |
dc.subject | INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS | |
dc.subject | INFANT | |
dc.subject | INFANT DEATH | |
dc.subject | INFANT MORTALITY | |
dc.subject | INFANT MORTALITY RATE | |
dc.subject | INFECTIOUS DISEASES | |
dc.subject | INFORMAL SECTOR | |
dc.subject | INFORMATION SYSTEMS | |
dc.subject | INSURANCE COMPANIES | |
dc.subject | INSURANCE PREMIUMS | |
dc.subject | INTERVENTION | |
dc.subject | LOCAL AUTHORITIES | |
dc.subject | MARKETING | |
dc.subject | MATERNAL MORTALITY | |
dc.subject | MEASLES | |
dc.subject | MEDICAL RECORDS | |
dc.subject | MORTALITY | |
dc.subject | NATIONAL GOVERNMENT | |
dc.subject | NEWBORNS | |
dc.subject | OFFICIAL POLICY | |
dc.subject | PATIENT | |
dc.subject | PATIENT SURVEYS | |
dc.subject | PATIENTS | |
dc.subject | PRE-NATAL CARE | |
dc.subject | PREGNANT WOMEN | |
dc.subject | PRENATAL CARE | |
dc.subject | PROVISION OF SERVICES | |
dc.subject | PUBLIC HEALTH | |
dc.subject | PUBLIC HEALTH CARE | |
dc.subject | PUBLIC HOSPITALS | |
dc.subject | REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH | |
dc.subject | REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE | |
dc.subject | SERVICE DELIVERY | |
dc.subject | SERVICE PROVIDER | |
dc.subject | SERVICE PROVIDERS | |
dc.subject | SERVICE PROVISION | |
dc.subject | STDS | |
dc.subject | TREATMENTS | |
dc.subject | VACCINATIONS | |
dc.subject | WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION | |
dc.title | Output-Based Aid in Health : The Argentine Maternal-Child Health Insurance Program | en |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
okr.date.disclosure | 2007-04-23 | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research :: Brief | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research | |
okr.docurl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/03/7557892/output-based-aid-health-argentine-maternal-child-health-insurance-program | |
okr.globalpractice | Health, Nutrition, and Population | |
okr.globalpractice | Governance | |
okr.globalpractice | Health, Nutrition, and Population | |
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum | 000020439_20070423152008 | |
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum | 7557892 | |
okr.identifier.report | 39608 | |
okr.language.supported | en | |
okr.pdfurl | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2007/04/23/000020439_20070423152008/Rendered/PDF/396080AR0OBApproaches130Health01PUBLIC1.pdf | en |
okr.region.administrative | Latin America & Caribbean | |
okr.region.country | Argentina | |
okr.topic | Law and Development :: Health Law | |
okr.topic | Health, Nutrition and Population :: Population Policies | |
okr.topic | Health Economics and Finance | |
okr.topic | Health Monitoring and Evaluation | |
okr.topic | Health Systems Development and Reform | |
okr.topic | Health, Nutrition and Population | |
okr.unit | Finance Economics & Urban Dept (FEU) | |
okr.volume | 1 of 1 |
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