Performance incentives for health in high-income countries key issues and lessons learned

Overview

During the last decade several new types of health provider performance incentive schemes  have emerged under designations such as "Pay-for-Performance (P4P)", "Results Based Financing", "Performance Based Financing" or "Performance  Based  Contracting". First adopted in highincome countries, these schemes have received growing attention in low- and middle-income countries where performance incentives are advocated as a  means to improving key health indicators and increase access to care. 

This report is part of a series, The World Health Report 2010 Background Papers, which were written to inform the process of developing the key messages of the World Health Report 2010: Health systems financing: The path to universal coverage.