附註:Includes bibliographical references.
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 -- Contracting for basic health care in rural Guatemala : comparison of performance [sic] of the performance of three delivery models / Isabel Danel and Gerard M. La Forgia -- The San Miguelito hospital reform in Panama : evaluation and lessons / Ricardo Bitrán, Cecilia Má, and Paulina Gómez -- Contracting primary health care services : the case of Costa Rica / James Cercone, Rodrigo Briceño, and Varun Gauri -- The Nicaraguan social security health insurance scheme : a promising work in progress / John L. Fiedler and Gerard M. La Forgia -- A new-dimension for health reform : the integrated community child health program in Honduras / Marcia Griffiths and Judith S. McGuire -- Improving efficiency and impact in health care services : lessons from Central America / Maureen Lewis.
摘要: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 p.
