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Alexander S. Preker
Researcher at World Bank
Publications - 48
Citations - 2270
Alexander S. Preker is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Health policy. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 47 publications receiving 2204 citations.
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To retain or remove user fees?: reflections on the current debate in low- and middle-income countries.
Chris James,Kara Hanson,Barbara McPake,Dina Balabanova,Davidson R. Gwatkin,Ian Hopwood,Christina Kirunga,Rudolph Knippenberg,Bruno Meessen,Saul S. Morris,Alexander S. Preker,Yves Souteyrand,Abdelmajid Tibouti,Abdelmajid Tibouti,Pascal Villeneuve,Ke Xu +15 more
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.
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Effectiveness of community health financing in meeting the cost of illness.
Alexander S. Preker,Guy Carrin,David M. Dror,Melitta Jakab,William C. Hsiao,Dyna Arhin-Tenkorang +5 more
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.
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Innovations in health service delivery : the corporatization of public hospitals
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.
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Health financing for poor people : resource mobilization and risk sharing
Alexander S. Preker,Guy Carrin +1 more
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.
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Make or buy" decisions in the production of health care goods and services: new insights from institutional economics and organizational theory
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.