Financing networks of care: a cross-case analysis from six countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Describe experiences of countries with networks of care's (NOCs') financial arrangements, identifying elements, strategies and patterns.

Design

Descriptive using a modified cross-case analysis, focusing on each network's financing functions (collecting resources, pooling and purchasing).

Setting

Health systems in six countries: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the USA.

Participants

Large-scale NOCs.

Results

Countries differ in their strategies to implement and finance NOCs. Two broad models were identified in the six cases: top-down (funding centrally designed networks) and bottom-up (financing individual projects) networks. Despite their differences, NOCs share the goal of improving health outcomes, mainly throu

SUBMITTER: Villalobos Dintrans P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10626858 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature