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Author(s): Gerard M. La Forgia
ISBN(s): 9780821362792, 0821362798
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.32 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  082136278X

ISBN 13: 978-0821362785

Author: Gerard M. La Forgia

Similar to developing countries elsewhere, during the 1990s, Central American countries faced pressures to improve the performance of their health systems. In most countries, there was a consensus that the systems were failing to live up to their potential. Rather than take on system-wide change, each country opted to step into reform through launching innovations to address specific problems or deficiencies in a particular program, function or intervention of the system. ‘Health Systems Innovations in Central America’ reports on how these experiences fared―a hospital in Panama, a nutrition program in Honduras, primary care extension in Guatemala, a subset of hospitals and primary care units in Costa Rica and a social security-managed health care program in Nicaragua. The studies report on the performance of the innovations, the policy environment in which they were developed as well as nuts-and-bolts features and processes incorporated into their design and implementation.
 

Table of contents: 

1. Is the Perfect the Enemy of the Good? A Case Study on Large-Scale Contracting for Basic Health Services in Rural Guatemala

Gerard M. La Forgia, Patricia Mintz, and Carmen Cerezo

2. Contracting for Basic Health Care in Rural Guatemala-Comparison of Performance of the Performance of Three Delivery Models

Isabel Danel and Gerard M. La Forgia

3. The San Miguelito Hospital Reform in Panama-Evaluation and Lessons

Ricardo Bitrán, Cecilia Ma, and Paulina Gómez

4. Contracting Primary Health Care Services-The Case of Costa Rica

James Cercone, Rodrigo Briceño, and Varun Gauri

5. The Nicaraguan Social Security Health Insurance Scheme-A Promising Work in Progress

John L. Fiedler and Gerard M. La Forgia

6. A New Dimension for Health Reform-The Integrated Community Child Health Program in Honduras

Marcia Griffiths and Judith S. McGuire

7. Improving Efficiency and Impact in Health Care Services-Lessons from Central America

Maureen Lewis

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