BACKGROUND Responsibility for planning and delivery of health services in the Philippines is devolved to the local government level. Given the recognised need to strengthen capacity for local planning and budgeting, we implemented Investment Cases (IC) for Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) in three selected sub-national units: two poor, rural provinces and one highly-urbanised city. Th...

Overview The Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid), a national leader in health-care transformation, contracts with 16 regional Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) to provide integrated medical, behavioral, and dental care in patientcentered primary care homes. The transformation seeks increased access to primary care, better control of healthcare cost increases, and improved health outcomes using gl...

In 1980, national land transport networks in Asia were unconnected between each other and across national borders, financed from public budgets, and tightly controlled by national road and railway administrations. Today, a Trans-Asian transport network is emerging that is governed by an ecosystem of local, national and international, and private sector institutions, and that are an integral par...

How should an organization’s center allocate resources units under its control which are better informed? Even with conscientious productivity reviews, important information will remain asymmetrically held. If units value their own expenditures more than those of their peers, they will seek excess budgets and expenditures. Fortunately, budget authorities can infer productivities from units’ exp...

The application of fallout radionuclides in soil erosion and sedimentation investigations has provided a valuable tool for improving the understanding of erosion and sediment transfer processes. However, most studies using fallout radionuclides have focussed on small areas. Increasing acceptance of the important role of fine sediment in degrading aquatic habitats and in the transfer and fat...

Independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) are a key means by which national governments have responded to the challenge of ensuring equitable public access to a new range of medicines and treatment options within the context of limited national budgets for healthcare. In this paper, we apply a regulatory governance frame to the study of the Swedish process fo...

Personal health budgets in England are National Health Service (NHS) funds that can be allocated to certain groups of patients to allow them, together with their NHS support staff, to purchase services or equipment that they believe will enhance their health and well-being. Some see this as a welcome personalization of health care that increases people's control over their health. However, pers...

Debbie Budlender: Debbie Budlender is a principal researcher for the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE), Cape Town, South Africa. A founding member of the South African Women's Budget Initiative, she is the leading international adviser on gender responsive budget (GRB) initiatives, having worked in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and the Americas. She has also written extensively o...