1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450414903321

Titolo

A guide to competitive vouchers in health [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : World Bank, 2004

ISBN

1-280-08532-0

9786610085323

1-4175-5469-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 p.)

Disciplina

338.4/33621/0973

Soggetti

Medical care, Cost of - United States

Medical care - Finance - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; PART I WHAT ARE HEALTH CARE VOUCHERS AND HOW DO THEY WORK?; Chapter 1 Delivering Public Subsidies in Health Care; Why Do Government Subsidies Do So Little to Help the Poor?; When Are Subsidies for Health Services Justified?; Demand-Side versus Supply-Side Subsidies; Other Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Subsidies; Chapter 2 Benefits of Competitive Voucher Schemes for Health; How Does a Voucher Scheme Work?; What Are the Advantages of Health Vouchers?; PART II INTRODUCING A VOUCHER SCHEME; Chapter 3 Conducting Prefeasibility Studies

Identifying the Health Sector Problem and the Aims of the Voucher SchemeJustifying the Use of a Voucher Scheme; Funding the Scheme; Understanding the Context in Which Subsidies Will Be Introduced; Building Partnerships; Checklist for Prefeasibility Assessment; Chapter 4 Conducting a Feasibility Assessment; Identifying Potential Impediments; Identifying Potential Advantages; Determining Whether a Voucher Scheme Is Financially Feasible; Weighing the Potential Benefits and Obstacles of a Voucher System; Checklist for Feasibility Assessment; Chapter 5 Designing a Voucher Scheme

Choosing a Voucher AgencyEstablishing Recipient Policies; Determining



Benefit Policies; Determining Price Policies; Determining Provider Policies; Determining Reimbursement Value Policies; Designing the Vouchers and Other Materials; Transport and Communications; Distributing the Vouchers; Payment of Service Providers; Developing Information Systems; Checklist for Voucher Design; Chapter 6 Implementing a Voucher Scheme; Tendering for Service Providers; Negotiating Contracts; Contracting; Training; Piloting; Institutionalizing; Scaling Up; Chapter 7 Monitoring and Evaluating a Voucher Program

Monitoring Service QualityMonitoring Competition among Providers; Monitoring to Detect Abuse of the Voucher Scheme; Monitoring the Characteristics of Voucher Recipients and Redeemers; Monitoring and Evaluating Health Outcomes; Monitoring and Evaluating the Impact on Equity and Poverty Reduction; Monitoring and Evaluating Cost-Effectiveness; References; Index; Boxes; Box 2-1 Varying the Service Package According to the Needs of the Patient in Nicaragua; Box 3-1 Prefeasibility Work on a Voucher Scheme for Cervical Cancer Screening

Box 4-1 Political Impediments to Voucher Schemes in El Salvador and HondurasBox 4-2 Are Vouchers Stigmatizing?; Box 4-3 Assessing the Feasibility of a Tuberculosis Voucher Scheme for Private Practitioners; Box 5-1 Who Runs the Voucher Program?; Box 5-2 How Can Vouchers Be Made Nontransferable?; Box 5-3 Benefit Policies: The Importance of Stating the Limits; Box 5-4 Price Policies Used by Different Voucher Schemes; Box 5-5 Choosing Service Providers that Meet Program Needs; Box 5-6 Designing the Voucher; Box 5-7 Facing the Challenges of Transport and Communications

Box 5-8 Using Village Leaders to Distribute Vouchers



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996395878903316

Autore

Logan John <17th cent.>

Titolo

Analogia honorum, or, A treatise of honour and nobility, according to the laws and customes of England [[electronic resource] ] : collected out of the most authentick authors, both ancient and modern : in two parts : the first containing honour military, and relateth to war, the second, honour civil, and relateth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by Tho. Roycroft ..., 1677

Descrizione fisica

181, [10] p. : ill., ports

Altri autori (Persone)

BlomeRichard <1635-1705.>

Soggetti

Heraldry

Nobility - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Wood attributes the authorship of this treatise to Richard Blome. Cf. DNB.

Includes index.

Reproduction of original in Library of Congress.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0078