Italy introduces performance-related funding

Performance Funding 2.0

This paper will draw upon the existing scholarly literature base to examine how and why certain states have moved toward performance-based funding of higher education, who seem to be the major players, and what political forces are advocating for such funding formulas. This will be accomplished through an analysis of the performance funding models in states where such models have been most prev...

Non-communicable diseases: mapping research funding organisations, funding mechanisms and research practices in Italy and Germany

BACKGROUND Evidence shows that territorial borders continue to have an impact on research collaboration in Europe. Knowledge of national research structural contexts is therefore crucial to the promotion of Europe-wide policies for research funding. Nevertheless, studies assessing and comparing research systems remain scarce. This paper aims to further the knowledge on national research landsca...

Local administration funding and regional disparities in Italy before WW1

Funding and future diagnosis related group development.

PURPOSE Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) are widely used for a variety of purposes including quality improvement, hospital output measurement and funding. DRGs are a patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats (i.e., its casemix) to the costs incurred by the hospital. This is done by classifying patients into mutually exclusive groups b...

Making Performance-Based Funding Work for Health

Policy Forum T here have been signifi cant increases in development fi nance since 2000, particularly for health [1,2]. As country programs put this money to work, important lessons and challenges on how to make health fi nance more effective emerge. Performance-based funding provides clear incentives to achieve results and has been used by organizations such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, T...