Documents et rapports
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Incentives and provider payment methods (anglais)
The mode of payment creates powerful incentives affecting provider behavior and the efficiency, equity and quality outcomes of health finance reforms. This paper examines provider incentives as well as...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 14053 Date du document: 31 mars 1995 Auteur: Barnum,Howard Nelch,Kutzin, Joseph,Saxenian,Helen
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Interaction of infant mortality and fertility and the effectiveness of health and family planning programs (anglais)
The interaction of fertility and infant mortality is well established. Lower infant mortality can lead to lower fertility by reducing the need for replacement births. Conversely, birth spacing improves...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS65 Date du document: 31 juillet 1988 Auteur: Barnum,Howard Nelch
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Hospital expenditure in Indonesia (anglais)
This study applies the recurrent cost projection procedures to estimate the costs of Indonesia's current plans for the hospital subsector and compare the recurrent cost implications of alternative investment...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8717 Date du document: 30 juin 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barnum,Howard Nelch
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Evaluating healthy days of life gained from health projects (anglais)
This paper draws attention to the importance of incorporating weights for time preference and productivity in using the concept of healthy days of life lost to evaluate health projects. Two alternative...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8627 Date du document: 31 octobre 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barnum,Howard Nelch
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Cost savings from alternative treatments for tuberculosis (anglais)
This paper estimates the cost effectiveness of turberculosis treatment in Botswana using short treatment regimes based on the antimycobacterial drugs, Rifampicin (R) or Ethambutol (E), compared to long...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8611 Date du document: 28 février 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barnum,Howard Nelch
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An econometric application of the theory of the farm-household (anglais)
An econometric model of household production, consumption and labor supply behavior for a semicommercial farm with a competitive labor market is presented, using a Cobb-Douglas specification for the production...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP109 Date du document: 31 janvier 1979 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barnum,Howard Nelch,Squire,Lyn,DEDER
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A model of an agricultural household : theory and evidence (anglais)
A model addressing agricultural responses to public interventions is described. The model is confined to the short run, and it allows an assessment of the policy significance of changes in five variables...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: OCP27 Date du document: 31 janvier 1979 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barnum,Howard Nelch,Squire,Lyn