This report is a user's guide for defining, measuring, and improving the performance of health service delivery organizations. The authors define six core performance domains: quality, efficiency, utilization, access, learning, and sustainability and provide a compendium of metrics that have...

Development aid for health increased dramatically during the past two decades, raising concerns about inefficiency and lack of coherence among the growing number of global health donors. However, we lack a framework for how donor proliferation affects health program performance to inform...

The World Bank often carries out in-depth analysis of the conditions and challenges facing different sectors in our client countries as a contribution to developing the analytical and information base for lending, policy dialogue, and more in-depth analytical work. In the health sector, we have...

Policymakers and researchers around the world are working to identify the 'how to' aspect of health systems strengthening. However, there is neither consistency nor clarity on what makes a 'good' health systems study with regard to research design, methodology, etc. This synopsis of health...

From resources to beneficiaries : an introduction of an end-to-end resource tracking & management framework and its application for primary health care development in LMICs / Hong Wang, Dan Kress, Peter Berman -- Five decades of health resource tracking and beyond / Nirmala Ravishankar, Ravi...

Objective – This chapter assesses the extent to which previous economic and financial crises had a negative impact on health outcomes and health financing. In addition, we review evidence related to the effectiveness of different policy measures undertaken in past crises to protect access to...