Alexander S. Preker

TL;DR: Reflections on the recent user fees debate are provided, drawing from the evidence presented and subsequent discussions at a recent UNICEF consultation on user fees in the health sector, and relates the debate to the wider issue of access to adequate healthcare.

TL;DR: Micro-level household data analysis and macro-level cross-country analysis give empirical support to the hypothesis that risk-sharing in health financing matters in terms of its impact on both the level and distribution of health, financial fairness and responsiveness indicators.

TL;DR: This book is an attempt to examine the design, implementation and impact of reforms that introduced market forces in the public hospital sector and provides some insights about recent trends in the reform of public hospitals, with an emphasis on organizational changes such as increased management autonomy, corporatization, and privatization.

TL;DR: The authors conclude by proposing concrete public policy measures that governments can introduce to strengthen and improve the effectiveness of community involvement in health care financing.

TL;DR: A conceptual framework in which a combination of institutional economics and organizational theory is used to examine the core production activities in the health sector concludes that most inputs for the healthsector can be efficiently produced by and bought from the private sector.