Preker, A. S. (ed)|Langenbrunner,  J. C. <br/><br/>
Spending wisely: buying health services for the poor 

 - Washinton D.C.  The Word Bank  2005 
 - xvii, 413p. 
<br/><br/> Focuses on strategic purchasing and contracting of services from nongovernmental providers while reviews ways to make public spending on health care more efficient and equitable in developing countries. Recommends that, experiments and pilot projects for improving public sector hospitals should focus on mission clarity and organizational simplification. and that the programs for improving composition of utilization should experiment with payments to consumers and with health labor force composition and training. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-8213-5918-5 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Health Care Costs|Finance|Economic|Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services|Law and regulations
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>W 85 .P74 2005