Background In many contexts, including fragile settings like Afghanistan, the coverage of
basic health services is low. To address these challenges there has been considerable …

Background Due to ongoing insecurity, the government of Afghanistan delivers health care
to the country's population by contracting out service delivery to non-governmental …

Abstract System dynamics methods were used to explore effective implementation pathways
for improving health systems performance through pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes. A …

The reconstruction of the health system in Afghanistan is in its early stages, and donors have
proposed Performance-based Partnership Agreements (PPAs) through which to subcontract …

Background Performance-based financing (PBF) has attracted considerable attention in
recent years in low and middle-income countries. Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health …

Abstract Background In 2002 Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and its
development partners initiated a new paradigm for the health sector by electing to Contract …

Countries are increasingly implementing pay for performance (P4P) as a way to improve
health services. The evidence base is conflicting and difficult to interpret. It is necessary to …

Background: A cluster randomized trial of a pay-for-performance (P4P) scheme was
implemented in Afghanistan to test whether P4P could improve maternal and child (MCH) …

Since 1999, performance‐based financing or pay‐for‐performance (P4P) methods have
been piloted in the Cambodian public health sector, first as one part of external contracting …

Background Despite progress in improving health outcomes in Afghanistan by contracting
public health services through non-governmental organizations (NGOs), inequity in access …