Pay for performance (P4P) programmes are popular health system-focused interventions
aiming to improve health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). This realist …

Background There is growing interest in paying for performance (P4P) as a means to align
the incentives of healthcare providers with public health goals. Rigorous evidence on the …

Within Muslim community, mosque is place for congregation, a centre of excellence for
knowledge, economic pursuit and community services, giving religious instruction and …

ABSTRACT Background: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has had more major armed conflicts
(wars) in the past two decades–including 13 wars during 1990–2015–than any other part of …

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 …

Performance-based contracting is particularly challenging in health care, where multiple
agents, information asymmetries, and other market failures compound the critical contracting …

The effect of performance-based financing (PBF) on patients' perception of primary health
care services in developing countries in not well documented. Data from a randomized …

Until the start of the new century, efforts to strengthen health systems focused solely on the
public sector and health programs overseen by public bodies. The private sector was …

Health systems worldwide fail to produce optimal health outcomes, and successive reforms
have sought to make them more efficient, more equitable and more responsive. The …

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