Publication: Purchasing Priority Public Health Services
Date
2004-09
ISSN
Published
2004-09
Author(s)
Liu, Xingzhu
O'Dougherty, Sheila
Abstract
Health care payment reforms undertaken
and studied during the past two decades were triggered by
problems associated with cost escalation and
over-utilization of costlier and cost-ineffective curative
services. However, public health services faced different
problems-insufficient financing and underutilization. If the
fundamental problems of medical care are different from
those of public health services, can the systems for
financing and paying for medical care also apply to public
health services?
Citation
“Liu, Xingzhu; O'Dougherty, Sheila. 2004. Purchasing Priority Public Health Services. Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP)
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