Moro-Visconti, R.; Omona, V.; Smart, G.; Ochola, E.; D'Agostino, E.; Greco, L. Reengineering Pediatric Services with Results-Based Financing: Evidence from Northern Uganda. Preprints2024, 2024061665. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.1665.v1
APA Style
Moro-Visconti, R., Omona, V., Smart, G., Ochola, E., D'Agostino, E., & Greco, L. (2024). Reengineering Pediatric Services with Results-Based Financing: Evidence from Northern Uganda. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.1665.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Moro-Visconti, R., Elisabetta D'Agostino and Luigi Greco. 2024 "Reengineering Pediatric Services with Results-Based Financing: Evidence from Northern Uganda" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.1665.v1
Abstract
Results-Based Financing (RBF) in pediatrics, in regions with scarce resources like Northern Uganda, provides an innovative approach to enhancing healthcare delivery. RBF aligns financial incentives with desired health outcomes, boosting service quality, efficiency, and effectiveness by tying compensation to achieving specific, measurable health targets.
Lacor and Kalongo hospitals, before the introduction of RBF, faced numerous challenges, including limited resources, staffing shortages, and inconsistent quality of care. RBF adoption requires critical health outcomes to target, such as lowering child mortality rates, enhancing vaccination coverage, and increasing the frequency of timely prenatal care visits.
The empirical application of RBF in pediatric services at Lacor and Kalongo Hospital from 2018 to 2024 shows improved healthcare quality and outcomes. Healthcare systems can identify ways to implement RBF models better, ensuring that financial incentives effectively contribute to attaining superior health outcomes.
Keywords
Maternal and child healthcare, low and middle-income countries (LMIC), Pay for performance (P4P), Value-Based Care, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Public Health and Health Services
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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