Health financing policy : the macroeconomic, fiscal, and public finance context / / Cheryl Cashin

• Autore: Cashin Cheryl
• Pubblicazione: Northwest Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank Group, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (77 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/73621
• Soggetto topico: Medical economics; Medical policy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Background; Objectives of the Guidance Note; Chapter 2 Objectives of Health Financing Policy Dialogue; Objectives; The Starting Point; Unpacking the Health Financing Challenges; Chapter 3 Macroeconomic and Fiscal Context: The Potential Government Resource Envelope for Health; Key Questions; Macroeconomic and Fiscal Constraints; Key Questions and Resources to Understand the Macroeconomic and Fiscal Context; Government Budget and Spending Priorities ; Measures and Resources to Understand the Budget Process and Priority-SettingKey Questions and Resources to Understand the Budget Process and Priority-Setting; Note; Chapter 4 Assessing Options for Raising Revenue for the Health Sector; Key Questions; Assessing Alternative Sources of Revenue; Earmarked Taxes and Revenue; Innovative Revenue Sources; Key Questions and Resources to Assess Options for Sources of Government Revenue for Health; Chapter 5 Opportunities for Better Aligning Health Spending with Health System Objectives; Key Questions; Opportunities to Improve Pooling ; Key Questions and Resources to Understand the Opportunities and Constraints to Improve PoolingOpportunities to Improve Purchasing; Key Questions and Resources to Understand the Opportunities and Constraints to Improve Purchasing; Chapter 6 Fiscal Sustainability of Current Health Spending Patterns and Potential Efficiency Gains; Key Questions; Expenditure Targets and Caps; Strategic Purchasing for Efficiency and Value for Money; Supply- and Demand-Side Controls; Key Questions and Resources to Understand the Fiscal Sustainability of Current Spending Patterns; Chapter 7 Conclusions; References ; Boxes 2.1 Attempts to Cost the Essential Services Package in Peru; 3.1 Revenue Collection Policies and the Government Health Budget in Ghana; 3.2 Government Spending Out of Line with Macroeconomic and Fiscal Realities in Ghana; 3.3 Countercyclical Policies and Health Expenditure; 3.4 Increasing the Discretionary Share of the Government Budget in Kenya; 3.5 Opportunities to Increase the Priority for Health in the Government Budget in Indonesia; 3.6 Fiscal Decentralization and Priority for Health in the Budget in Brazil ; 3.7 Fiscal Decentralization and Reprioritizing Health in the Government Budget in India and Vietnam4.1 Diversification of Revenue Sources for the Health Sector: France, Japan, and Ghana; 4.2 Unclear Combined Equity of the Revenue Sources for the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana; 4.3 New Source of Health Revenue Displaced the Government Budget in Kazakhstan; 5.1 Partial Fiscal Recentralization to Preserve Pooling of Health Funds in the Kyrgyz Republic; 5.2 Effective Cross-Subsidization with Multiple Insurance Programs in Japan and France ; 5.3 Integrating Multiple Insurance Schemes or Programs to Improve Pooling
• Titolo autorizzato: Health financing policy
• ISBN: 1-4648-0797-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910466310503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II