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This textbook for graduate and postgraduate university students and for healthcare policymakers reviews a set of countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that have introduced universal access to healthcare through an incremental expansion of health insurance coverage over time. This second volume is a companion to Volume 1, A Comparative Review of Landmark Health Reforms in the OECD, which reviews a differ...

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The recent expansion of health insurance coverage in the USA under the Affordable Health Care Act, and current threats to reverse the benefits of this reform, have once again focused the world's attention on the difficult challenges faced by other countries trying to provide better access to healthcare to their population at an affordable cost. This textbook provides a comparative review of financing universal access to healthcare in the Organ...

With the decline of ideology, politicians have grown increasingly fond of the dictum ?What's best is what works.? This book is an excellent lesson on what works in health care?or more precisely, on how to make what works work better, especially with respect to the involvement of the private sector. It should be on every health policy maker's desk.

With a special focus on strategic purchasing and contracting of services from nongovernmental providers, 'Spending Wisely' reviews ways to make public spending on health care more efficient and equitable in developing countries.The underlying premise is that it is necessary to separate the function of financing from service delivery to improve public sector performance and accountability. In moving from passive budgeting to active purchasing o...

Promoting health and confronting disease challenges requires effective action across a range of activities in the health system. Managing scarce resources and health care effectively and efficiently is an important part of this story. This volume presents six regional reviews of country level experience in improving resource allocation and strategic purchasing in low-and middle income countries.

Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in the health sector of many low and middle income countries. The book reviews the context under which private insurance could contribute to an improvement in the financial sustainability of the health sector, financial protection against the costs of illness, household income smoothing, access to care, and market productivity. This volume is the third in aseries of in-depth re...

This is the fifth volume in a series of in-depth reviews on the role of health care financing in improving access for low-income populations to needed care, protecting them from the impoverishing effects of illness, and addressing the important issues of social exclusion in government financed programmes.

This book provides a fascinating account of new and innovative ways that communities can contribute to financial protection and access to essential health services for poorer populations in rural settings and informal sector workers.