Canpayingfor results help toachieve the Millennium Development Goals? A critical review of selected evaluations of results-based financing

Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 184-195

  Oxman, Andrew D ^a   Fretheim, Atle ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN KNOWLEDGE CENTRE FOR THE HEALTH SERVICES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Conditional payments; Output based aid; Pay for performance; Performance based funding; Results based financing

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERVIEW; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESULTS BASED FINANCING; REVIEW; TRAINING; TUBERCULOSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HAITI; HEALTH AUXILIARY; INDIA; ORGANIZATION;

COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; FINANCING, ORGANIZED; HAITI; HUMANS; INDIA; MOTHERS; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77951704116     PISSN: 17565383     EISSN: 17565391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-5391.2009.01024.x     Document Type: Review

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