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financial management reform, supportive supervision, and community oversight, but only PBF includes performance pay for health facilities and workers. The analysis also highlights the many ways—the pricing of services, the selection of services to target through strategic purchasing, and the role of operating budgets and facility autonomy—in which health financing reforms in low-income countries could be b olstered. The report concludes by taking a step back from this evidence and asking how policy makers and task team leaders can design health system–strengthening approaches that account for all that has been learned from the implementation of previous financing interventions, particularly the PBF pilots.
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