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 …

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 …

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

Background: Several developing countries, especially in Africa, have implemented
performance-based financing (PBF) schemes with the aim of improving healthcare …

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 …

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 …

Performance-based financing (PBF) programs are increasingly implemented in low and
middle-income countries to improve health service quality and utilization. In April 2011, a …

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

Maternal and newborn care has been a primary focus of performance-based financing (PBF)
projects, which have been piloted or implemented in 21 countries in sub-Saharan Africa …

Abstract The Nigeria State Health Investment Project (NSHIP) was implemented in three
Nigerian states between 2013 and 2018. Under the NSHIP, some local government areas …