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2012

• DRG-based payment systems in low- and middle-income countries: Implementation experiences and challenges
  Discussion Paper 01/2012

2011

• A global overview of health insurance administrative costs: what are the reasons for variations found?
  Health Policy, Volume 102, Issue 2/3
• A health financing review of Viet Nam with a focus on social health insurance
• Impact of out-of-pocket payments for treatment of non-communicable diseases in developing countries: a review of literature
  Discussion Paper 02/2011
• Is universal coverage via social health insurance financial feasible in Swaziland?
  South African Medical Journal, Volume 101, Issue 3
• Reaching universal coverage by means of social health insurance in Lesotho? Results and implications from a financial feasibility assessment
  International Social Security Review, Volume 64, Issue 2
• The determinants of health expenditure
  A country-level panel data analysis
• The role of institutional design and organizational practice for health financing performance and universal coverage
  Health Policy, Volume 99, Issue 3
• Validity and comparability of out-of-pocket health expenditure from household surveys: a review of the literature and current survey instruments
  Discussion Paper 01/2011

2010

• A health financing review of Mongolia with a focus on social health insurance
• A National Social Health Insurance Plan for Argentina: Simulating its financial feasibility
  Discussion Paper 04/2010
• Administrative costs of health insurance schemes: exploring the reasons for their variability
  Discussion paper 08/2010
• Financial burden of health payments in France: 1995 – 2006
  Discussion Paper 06/2010
• Health financing challenges and the role of institutional design and organizational practice for health financing performance in Nicaragua
  Discussion paper 2/2010
• Impact of mutual health insurance on access to health care and financial risk protection in Rwanda
  Discussion paper 03/2010
• Obstacles in the process of establishing sustainable National Health Insurance Scheme: insights from Ghana
  Technical brief for policy-makers, Number 1/2010
• Options for financing and optimizing medicines in resource-poor countries
  Discussion Paper 07/2010
• Performance incentives for health-care providers
  Discussion paper, Number 1/2010
• The role of institutional design and organizational practice for health financing performance and universal coverage
  Discussion Paper 05/2010
• Uganda Health Financing Review 2010

2009

• Access to health care and the financial burden of out-of-pocket health payments in Latvia
  Technical brief for policy-makers, Number 1/2009
• An analysis of the health financing system of the Republic of Korea and options to strengthen health financing performance
• Assessing the performance of primary health centres under decentralized government in Kerala, India
  Health Policy and Planning 19(1)
• Assessing the reliability of household expenditure data: results of the World Health Survey
  Health Policy, Volume 91, Issue 3
• Assessment of the health system and policy environment as a critical complement to tracking intervention coverage for maternal, newborn, and child health
  The Lancet, Vol 371 (9620)
• Equity during an economic crisis: financing of the Argentine health system
  Discussion paper 3/2009
• Evaluación institucional del sistema de financiamiento de salud nicaragüense y propuestas para mejorar y fortalecerlo: una trayectoria hacia la cobertura universal
  Institutional evaluation of the health Financing system of Nicaragua and suggestions to improve and strengthen: A way towards universal coverage (in Spanish)
• Financial risk protection of National Health Insurance in the Republic of Korea: 1995-2007
  Discussion paper 04/2009
• Health care financing in rural China: new Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme
  Technical brief for policy-makers, Number 3/2009
• Health financing strategy for the Asia Pacific region (2010-2015)
• Health financing systems review of Rwanda: options for universal coverage
• Health systems policy, finance, and organization
• Learning lessons on implementing performance-based financing, from a multi-country evaluation
• Lessons learned from a community-based medisave experiment among rural women in the Indian state of Karnataka
  Discussion paper 6/2009
• Paris on the Mekong: using the aid effectiveness agenda to support human resources for health in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
  Human Resources for Health 2009, 7:16
• Setting health insurance remuneration rates of private providers in Kenya: the role of costing, challenges and implications
  International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Volume 26, Issue 1
• Shaping national health financing systems: can micro-banking contribute?
  Technical brief for policy-makers, Number 2/2009
• Social Health Insurance: A guidebook for planning
• Summary report of the health financing system assessment in Cambodia
• The nursing community, macroeconomic and public finance policies: towards a better understanding
  Discussion paper 2/2009
• Thinking of introducing social health insurance? Ten questions
  Technical brief for policy-makers, Number 4/2009

2008

• Cambodia Strategic Framework for Health Financing 2008-2015
• Conditional cash transfers: what's in it for health?
  Technical brief for policy-makers, Number 1/2008
• Consultation on strategic contracting in health systems
  Synthesis of the meeting, Geneva, 9–11 January 2008
• Editorial: Bridging community-based health insurance and social protection for health care – a step in the direction of universal coverage?
  Tropical Medicine and International Health, Vol 13 (2), Feb 2008, pp 140–143
• Extending social health insurance to the informal sector in Kenya. An assessment of factors affecting demand
  The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 23(1)
• Formula funding of health services: Learning from experience in some developed countries
  Discussion paper 1/2008
• General budget support in developing countries: ensuring the health sector's interest
  Technical brief for policy-makers, Number 2/2008
• Health sector reforms in Argentina and the performance of the health financing system
  Health Policy, Volume 88, Issue 1
• Report: Feasibility assessment and financial projection results for a Social Health Insurance Scheme in Swaziland
  Exploring Possible Options
• Social health insurance: how feasible is its expansion in the African region?
  Development ISSues, Volume10/Number2/November 2008, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague

2007

• Aid for health: should policy-makers worry about its macroeconomic impact?
  Technical brief for policy-makers, Number 3/2007
• Assessing the reliability of household expenditure data: results of the World Health Survey
  Discussion Paper 05/2007
• Coping with out-of-pocket health payments: applications of engel curves and two-part models in six African countries
  Discussion Paper 07/2007
• Financing health promotion
  Discussion paper, Number 4/2007
• Financing long-term care programmes in health systems: with a situation assessment in selected high-, middle- and low-income countries
  Discussion Paper 06/2007
• Health financing reform in Kenya – assessing the social health insurance proposal
  South African Medical Journal, 2007; 97: 130-135
• Local factors influencing resource allocation to health under the decentralized planning process in Kerala, India
  Journal of Health and Development 2007; 3 (1 & 2)
• Protecting households from catastrophic health spending
  Health Affairs, 26 (4)
• Provider payments and cost-containment: lessons from OECD countries
  Technical brief for policy-makers, Number 2/2007
• Report: Lesotho feasibility assessment for a social health insurance
  Report of the technical support mission for the Feasibility assessment and financial projection results for a Social Health Insurance Scheme in Lesotho: Exploring Possible Options
• Study of financial access to health services for the poor in Cambodia
  Phase 1: Scope, design, and data analysis & Phase 2: In-depth analysis of selected case studies
• The new Dutch health insurance scheme: challenges and opportunities for better performance in health financing
  Discussion paper 3/2007
• Trends in mechanisms for allocating funding to health-service providers: performance contracts
  Technical briefs for policy-makers. Number 1, 2007

2006

• A macroeconomic view of cost containment: simulation experiments for Thailand
  Thammasat Economic Journal, Vol 24 (2)
• African Health Economics Advisory Committee: final report of the first meeting
  Final report of the first meeting, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 23–25 November 2004
• An empirical model of access to health care, health care expenditure and impoverishment in Kenya: learning from past reforms and lessons for the future
  Discussion paper, Number 3/2006
• Approaching health financing policy in the European Region
  Fifty-sixth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe, EUR/RC56/BD/1
• Health financing in Argentina: an empirical study of health care expenditure and utilization
  Innovations in Health Financing: Working Paper Series, No. 8. Fundación Mexicana para la Salud / Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública
• Health financing in Argentina: an empirical study of health care utilization and health care expenditure
  Discussion paper, Number 5/2006
• Health financing reform in Kenya: assessing the social health insurance proposal
  Discussion paper, Number 1/2006
• Health financing: a strategy for the African region
  Regional Committee for Africa; Fifty-sixth session; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 28 August-1 September 2006
• Health service utilization and the financial burden on households in Viet Nam: the impact of social health insurance
  Discussion paper, Number 6/2006
• Recent policies in health service provision: A broader path towards sustainable health care systems?
  Chapter 2 in "Developments and trends in social security 2001-2004"
• The Bolivian health system and its impact on health care use and financial risk protection
  Discussion paper 7/2006
• The impact of universal insurance program on catastrophic health expenditure: simulation analysis for Kenya
  Discussion paper, Number 8/2006
• What is the impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure and impoverishment? A comparative analysis of three African countries
  Discussion paper, Number 2/2006

• WHO Bulletin: Special theme issue on contracting
  Volume 84, Number 11, November 2006, 841-920

2005

• Achieving universal health coverage: developing the health financing system
  Technical brief for policy-makers, Number 1/2005
• African Health Monitor: Health economics, getting value for money
  A magazine of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa
• Application of contracting in developed countries
  Technical briefs for policy-makers. Number 3, 2005
• Application of contracting in developed countries: key messages
  Technical briefs for policy-makers. Number 4, 2005
• Clarifying efficiency-equity tradeoffs through explicit criteria, with a focus on developing countries
  Health Care Analysis, Vol.13. No. 1. March 2005
• Designing health financing systems to reduce catastrophic health expenditure
  Technical brief for policy-makers, Number 2/2005
• Distribution of health payments and catastrophic expenditures: methodology
  Discussion paper, Number 2/2005
• Kampala declaration on fair and sustainable health financing
  Report from the regional and evidence based workshop in Kampala 23-25 November 2005
• Key performance indicators for the implementation of social health insurance
  Applied Health Economics and Health Policy: Volume 4(1)
• Regulating private health insurance to serve the public interest: policy issues for developing countries
  Discussion paper, Number 3/2005
• Sustainable health financing, universal coverage and social health insurance
  World Health Assembly Resolution 58.33 (2005)
• The elimination of user fees in Uganda: impact on utilization and catastrophic health expenditures
  Discussion paper, Number 4/2005

2004

• Clarifying efficiency-equity tradeoffs through explicit criteria, with a focus on developing countries
  Discussion paper, Number 5/2004
• Impact of risk sharing on the attainment of health systems goals
  Chapter 12 in "Health Financing for Poor People"
• Private health insurance: implications for developing countries
  Discussion paper, Number 3/2004
• Reaching universal coverage via social health insurance: key design features in the transition period
  Discussion paper, Number 2/2004
• Reports from the joint missions on social health insurance in Kenya
  with DFID, GTZ, ILO, KFW, WHO
• Rich-poor differences in health care financing
  Chapter 1 in "Health Financing for Poor People"
• Tax-based financing for health systems: options and experiences
  Discussion paper, Number 4/2004
• The establishment and use of dedicated taxes for health
  World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific
• The impact of health expenditure on households and options for alternative financing
  Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean, Fifty-first Session; Technical paper; EM/RC51/4
• The role of contracting in improving health systems performance
  Discussion paper, Number 1/2004

2003

• Building on the user-fee experience: the African case
  Discussion paper, Number 3/2003
• Community-based health insurance schemes in developing countries: facts, problems and perspectives
  Discussion paper, Number 1/2003
• Health systems performance assessment: debates, methods and empiricism
• How much should countries spend on health?
  Discussion paper, Number 2/2003
• Provider payments and patient charges as policy tools for cost-containment: How successful are they in high-income countries?
  Human Resources for Health 2003, 1:6
• Recent advances in social health insurance in Viet Nam
  A comprehensive review of recent health insurance regulations
• The role of contractual arrangements in improving health systems’ performance
  World Health Assembly Resolution 56.25 (2003), Agenda item 14.13

2002

• Analysis of allocation of financial resources within health systems conceptual paper
  Discussion paper, Number 1/2002
• Funding health care: options for Europe
  European Observatory on Health Care Systems
• Health care cost containment policies in high-income countries: how successful are monetary incentives?
  Discussion paper, Number 2/2002
• Health care reform initiatives in Malaysia
  Report of a consultation with the Planning and Development Division, Ministry of Health, Malaysia
• Medical savings accounts: lessons learned from limited international experience
  Discussion paper, Number 3/2002

2000

• Who pays for health systems?
  Chapter 5 in the World Health Report 2000

1990-1999

• The reform of rural cooperative medical system in the People's Republic of China: interim experience in 14 pilot counties
  Social Science & Medicine 48