Health Inputs

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23650976
AutoresWorld Bank (autor correspondente)
Ano1993
Páginas134-155
Data de publicação1993-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoWorld Development Report 1993 (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraThe World Bank (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1596/9780195208900_chapter6
OpenAlexW4249793155
ISBN9780195208900
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5

Suggests that public policy can play a useful role in limiting the growth of both public and private investments in specialist training, equipment, and tertiary facilities to achieve cost containment of health spending and so permit the efficient delivery of public health and essential clinical services. Investments to support delivery of essential clinical services are best directed at health centers and district hospitals and at improving access in underserved areas. Some public investments in tertiary facilities should support research and training, but at levels well below current levels of public financing in most countries. Redirecting public spending toward lower-level facilities is difficult politically, but some countries, such as Papua New Guinea, are moving in this direction. Addressing imbalances in human resources, improving the selection, acquisition, and use of drugs, and generating information and strengthening research can help improve health sector performance today and create new health systems and technologies for tomorrow.

Business · Developing country · Distribution (mathematics) · Economic growth · Economics · Limiting · Political science · Poverty · Psychological intervention · Public health · Public sector · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Engineering · Global Maternal and Child Health · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Medicine · Nursing