From Resources to Beneficiaries: Introducing an End-to-End Resource Tracking and Management Framework and its Application for Primary Health Care Development in LMICs

Hong Wang, Daniel H. Kress and Peter Berman

Chapter 1 in Tracking Resources for Primary Health Care:A Framework and Practices in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 2020, pp 3-21 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The following sections are included:Financial resource tracking plays a critical role in providing important information to policymakers for evidence-based policy development and its implementation, especially for the effective and efficient functioning of the primary health care (PHC) system and achievement of global health-related goals.The resource tracking and management framework adds value by bringing disparate resource tracking efforts into one comprehensive structure. This enables policymakers to see the overall resources envelope and resource flows as a continuum: from the sources of financing to the beneficiaries. This provides a comprehensive picture of how resources are mobilized, deployed, and utilized to achieve intended outcomes.The resource tracking and management framework emphasizes that resource tracking is not just about getting the financial numbers and statistics, it is about the policy issues, analysis, interpretation, and overall storyline behind these numbers and statistics, which is critical for the health financing system diagnosis and problem identification, priority setting, and actionable solution development for improvement.Given its important roles in health care system development and in achieving global health-related targets, there is an imperative need to pay more attention and devote more efforts to tracking and managing PHC financial resources for better outcomes.

Keywords: Health Financing; Public Financial Management; Resource Tracking; Health Economics; Health Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I14 I15 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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