Improving Effective Coverage in Health : Do Financial Incentives Work?

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Overview -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2 Effective Coverage: A Framework Linking Coverage and Quality -- Introduction -- Coverage, quality, and effective coverage -- Empirical applications -- Expanding the work on effective coverage by using data collected in health facilities -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Quality of Care: A Framework for Measurement -- Introduction -- Theoretical framework for assessing quality of care -- Measuring quality of care for research and policy -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Decomposing the Constraints to Quality of Care Using Data on Antenatal Care Consultations from Five Sub-Saharan African Countries -- Introduction -- Why antenatal care? -- Data -- Results -- Conclusions -- Annex 4A: Additional tables and figures -- Annex 4B: Data -- References -- Chapter 5 Performance-Based Financing Improves Coverage of Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health Interventions -- Introduction -- PBF, health system performance, and health worker effort in theory -- Evidence of the impact of PBF on the quality and quantity of health service delivery in LMICs -- Impact of PBF on health worker motivation and satisfaction in six countries -- Results -- PBF, quality of care, and idle capacity -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Policy Alternatives to Performance-Based Financing -- Introduction -- Systematic review and meta-analysis of demand- and supply-side financial incentives -- Comparing the PBF and DFF approaches -- PBF, DFF, and institutional deliveries -- PBF, DFF, and baseline effort -- Complementarities in the PBF and DFF approaches -- Discussion and conclusions -- Annex 6A: Additional tables -- Notes -- References.