Money into health.

This book addresses one set of approaches to using money and other material goods to affect the actions of those who are delivering and receiving health services. More specifically it is about how to use particular types of incentives -- those that reward or penalize specific types of results -- to motivate health-related behaviors. Performance incentives are defined as the transfer of money or material goods conditional on taking a measurable action or achieving a predetermined performance target. In the conceptualization we use performance incentives include those that operate at the level of the health facilities (or networks of facilities) the individual provider the household decisionmakers and the patients. In other words we look at incentives on both the demand and the supply sides at both individual and collective levels. In our framework we do not include the conditional payments that donor agencies offer to national governments such as additional grant monies if and when particularpolicy decisions are made. We look solely at the interface between provider and patient. (Excerpt)