More than 20 countries in Africa are scaling up performance‐based financing (PBF), but its
impact on equity in access to health services remains to be documented. This paper draws …

Maternal health services continue to favour the wealthiest in lower and middle income
countries. Debate about the potential of performance-based financing (PBF) to address …

Over the past 15 years, hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in reforms
founded on performance-based financing (PBF) in low-and middle-income countries. While …

Background: As countries reform health financing systems towards universal health
coverage, increasing concerns emerge on the need to ensure inclusion of the most …

This paper exploits the geographic expansion of performance‐based financing (PBF) in
Cambodia over a decade to estimate its effect on the utilization of maternal and child health …

Abstract Performance-Based Financing (PBF) is a promising approach to improve health
system performance in developing countries, but there are concerns that it may inadequately …

Background Performance-based financing (PBF) assumes that subsidizing user fees for
maternal health services to reduce out-of-pocket expenses will expand coverage and …

Africa's progress towards the health related Millennium Development Goals remains limited.
This can be partly explained by inadequate performance of health care providers. It is …

Several governments in low-and middle-income countries have adopted performance-
based financing to increase health care use and improve the quality of health services. We …

Background Performance-based financing (PBF) has demonstrated a range of successes
and failures in improving health outcomes across low-and middle-income countries …