Step-by-step guide designed to help countries find answers to their provider payment policy questions through a country-led participatory process that draws on real world, practitioner experiences with designing, implementing and managing the consequences of payment systems design.
The tool, referred to as the “UHC-PHC Self-Assessment Tool,” is a multi-stakeholder survey that helps accomplish the following: Document and assess how health insurance or financial coverage institutions interact with other PHC actors and programs; Identify key areas of improvement and opportunities to align the health financing agency (HFA) or other health financing policymakers with PHC goals. The UHC-PHC Self-Assessment Tool is a rapid diagnostic instrument for identifying practical policy opportunities in the health system to improve the relationship between health financing and PHC efforts. The tool can be useful for improving coordination among health financing and PHC efforts in countries around the world. It is most suitable for locations in which (a) the government is not sufficiently prioritizing PHC efforts, (b) PHC efforts work poorly or are not coordinated with health financing mechanisms, and, especially, (c) communication among the relevant stakeholders is limited. The tool does not provide a complete evaluation or mapping of PHC or UHC in the country. It focuses strongly on UHC, not the entire PHC system, so it looks closely at the role and function of the HFA, which can be crucial to improving UHC-PHC alignment.
The Costing Manual Toolkit includes more than 40 tools and templates found in the Costing Manual that can be adapted to a variety of contexts due to the unique, collaborative approach used in its design.
A reference guide for countries trying to link their universal health coverage and eHealth information systems using a standards-based approach.
This is the first costing-specific resource that bridges costing theory — what you should do — with practical, step by step guidance on what you can do to address multiple challenges related to costing for provider payment in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Developed by the JLN Costing Collaborative, with support and facilitation from Results for Development Institute, the Manual takes traditional guidelines on step-down cost accounting one step further by providing practical options to overcome the real life challenges associated with costing in LMICs. Some common challenges addressed in the manual include data constraints, different concerns of public and private providers, weak cross-institutional collaboration, among others. This Manual provides tools and templates based on the day-to-day experiences of a network of practitioners that can be adapted to a variety of contexts due to the unique, collaborative approach used in its design. The diversity of experiences reflected in each step of the Manual offers a range of options that practitioners from other countries can draw on to become their own costing experts to improve provider payment policy processes. Access the Costing Manual Toolkit. The Costing Manual is accompanied by an online course, developed by the World Bank’s Open Learning Center and designed specifically for the busy practitioner in mind.