A preliminary assessment of financial stability, efficiency, health systems and health outcomes using performance-based contracts in Belize

Global Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1063-1074

  Bowser, Diana M ^a   Figueroa, Ramon ^b   Natiq, Laila ^c   Okunogbe, Adeyemi ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Ministry of Health   (Belize)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belize; efficiency; financing; health systems; pay for performance

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BELIZE; BRONCHITIS; BUDGET; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTRACT; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMPHYSEMA; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORBIDITY; NURSE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERFORMANCE; PRENATAL CARE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VACCINATION;

BELIZE; CONTRACTS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE;

EID: 84887037433     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2013.829511     Document Type: Article

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