The reform of provider payment systems, from retrospective to prospective payment, has
been heralded as the right move to contain costs in the light of rising health expenditures in …

Precarious work, characterized by the uncertainty and unpredictability of employment, is well
established in Thailand. This article examines the expansion of new forms of precarious …

This paper evaluates the impact on cost and utilization of a shift from fee‐for‐service to
capitation payment of district hospitals by Vietnam's social health insurance agency …

Objective Launched to assist in achieving universal health coverage, provider payment
reform (PPR) is one of the most important policy tools deployed to transform incentives …

Globally, governments are seeking to develop equitable and sustainable healthcare
systems for delivering universal healthcare coverage under budget constraints. This chapter …

This paper examines the effect of payment mechanisms on prescription patterns in four
district hospitals in provincial Thailand. Outpatients aged 60 or over at the four hospitals …

Objectives To examine types and quantities of unused medications in a sample of
households and to investigate reasons for the unused medications and associated factors …

One of the most important components of the ambitious 2014 National Health Insurance
reform in Indonesia is the implementation of prospective payment system known as …

In resource-scarce settings governments have increasingly looked at ways of engaging the
private sector in achieving national health system goals. This study is a comparative …

Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme and its provider‐payment mechanism reforms: A
Formal Evaluation Page 1 THINKING, FAST AND SLOW Ghana’s National Health Insurance …