Health Care : Current Reviews

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Impact of ‘Pay for Performance’ on Utilization of Health Services and Quality of Care in Low and Middle Income Countries

Mubashir Zafar

  Abstract The “pay-for-performance” (P4P) tool has been used in low and middle income countries in order to improve the performance of health care providers. It helps to improve the quality of health care and efficiency but it has some drawback like its only focus on a single condition and do not reflect the complexity of caring for patients who had multiple conditions. Objective of this paper is to determine the P4P impact of health care services. Different documents, papers, reports and literature were searched from 2010 to 2012 were included. Medline, Embase, and Google search engine were used for this purpose. “Pay for performance” increase the utilization of health services and quality of health services but its constrained by certain challenges such as immature NGO service sector with weak managerial and technical capacity, conditional cash transfers to households in countries with a large proportion of the population was considered poor. Improvement of quality of health services by incentive pay to stakeholder in developing countries.