Pathways to high and low performance: factors differentiating primary care facilities under performance-based financing in Nigeria.

ABSTRACT: The determinants of primary health facility performance in developing countries have not been well studied. One of the most under-researched areas is health facility management. This study investigated health facilities under the pilot performance-based financing (PBF) scheme in Nigeria, and aimed to understand which factors differentiated primary health care centres (PHCCs) which had performed well, vs those which had not, with a focus on health facility management practices. We used a multiple case study where we compared two high-performing PHCCs and two low-performing PHCCs for each of the two PBF target states. Two teams of two trained local researchers spent 1 week at each PHCC and collected semi-structured interview, observation and documentary data. Data from interviews were transc

SUBMITTER: Mabuchi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5886213 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature