output-based healthcare

The online chat last week (full transcript .txt) hosted by Abt Associates covered a wide range of topics in OBA: utilization, fraud control, quality assurance, targeting, demand versus supply side programming, clinic management of medical supplies, service substitution, patient empowerment, clinic accreditation, transportation (and rural versus urban divide), staff pay and correlation of facility [...]

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The successful initial public offering of shares in the 25% government owned Safaricom is an eye-catching story. Asking whether similar good news in economic and political developments across the continent are a flash in the pan or signs of larger trend, the Boston Review features Berkeley’s Ted Miguel (”Is it Africa’s Turn?“) and nine [...]

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