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Pay for Performance (P4P) to Improve Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries: Findings from an Online Survey

In April-May 2009, the USAID-supported Health Systems 20/20 project implemented an online survey to capture developing country experience with pay for performance (P4P) – a strategy that is increasingly being introduced with the goal of improving maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes.

This survey’s purpose is to begin to fill an important gap by addressing a number of questions, namely: what health concerns are developing country P4P schemes primarily targeting? Where are these schemes being planned, introduced, and scaled-up? How are they being designed and implemented? Who is managing them? And what, if any, evidence is there on critical factors to ensure their desired impact?

PowerPoint Presentation summarizing findings

Author: Alix Beith, Rena Eichler, Ellie Brown, Dane Button, Catherine Connor, Natasha Hsi, Parsa Sanjana, Kimberly Switlick, and Hong Wang
Published: Jul 1 2009