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Paying for performance to improve the delivery of health interventions in low-and middle-income countries (Review)

Paying for performance to improve the delivery of health interventions in low-and middle-income countries (Review)

AcknowledgementsThis paper is based on work commissioned by the Commonwealth Fund for its 2010 International Symposium on Health Policy. The authors would like to thank Sarah Thomson (LSE Health) and Robin Osborn (Commonwealth Fund) for valuable guidance, Sarah Jane Reed (LSE Health) for research assistance, and seminar participants and referees for helpful comments. where there is greatest uncertainty about the optimal approach. We conclude that a judicious mix of accountability mechanisms is likely to be appropriate in most settings, including market mechanisms, electoral processes, direct financial incentives, and professional oversight and control. The mechanisms should be aligned with the priority setting and monitoring processes.

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