The PPM Podcast: The Who, What and How for Paying for Health Services to Achieve UHC. This podcast is part of the Joint Learning Network Provider Payment Mechanism Technical Initiative. Find out more at http://www.jointlearningnetwork.org/. If you would like to contribute any questions or thoughts, send us a voice message through the "Message" button on Anchor.fm, or reach out via email at [email protected].
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As we begin to wrap up Season 2 of the Provider Payment Mechanisms podcast, we took some time to reflect on each of our three themes and how they came together this season. We asked you, our listeners, to send in any questions you had throughout and in this episode we took some time to answer them. Again we're joined by our two technical experts, D…
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3. Incentivizing Quality: Translating Strategic Purchasing into Quality Care
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22:44Strategic purchasing of health services is key to incentivizing quality care and maintaining provider motivation. This episode will examine country innovations in Liberia, Malaysia and Moldova to incentivize quality through financial and non-financial incentives. As you listen to this episode, if you would like to contribute any questions or though…
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3. Introducing Dr. Rima Marhayu, Dr. Safiee Mohamed, Vera Mussah, and Dr. Ghenadie Damascan
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7:35Before our third episode on incentivizing quality and translating strategic purchasing into quality care, we want to give you a chance to get to know our key country voices. In this episode we'll be joined by Dr. Rima Marhayu and Dr. Safiee Mohamed from Malaysia, Vera Mussah from Liberia, and Dr. Ghenadie Damascan from Moldova, to discuss why they'…
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2. Analytics: The Core Tenet of Being a Strategic Purchaser
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19:30In episode two, countries share the data sources they rely on to make the right decisions on what services to buy, and which providers to buy from. While data sources and systems vary across countries, we'll look at how Ethiopia and Mongolia’s journeys have illustrated how they have catalyzed strategic purchasing efforts using what they have. As yo…
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2. Introducing Dereje Mengistu and Batbayar Ankhbayar
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5:29In anticipation of our second episode on Analytic and the Core Tenet of Being a Strategic Purchaser, we want to give you a chance to get to know our key country voices. In this episode we'll be joined by Dereje Mengistu from Ethiopia and Batbayar Ankhbayar from Mongolia, to discuss why they're passionate about their work, as well as learn about a f…
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1. Innovating for Universal Health Coverage
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19:23Each country has its own pathway in terms of provider payment mechanism improvements. Solutions are truly contextual – barriers in one country might be an opportunity in another, while solutions that were successful in one country may be unsuccessful in another. This episode will examine what we call "big bang" reforms, or the design and scale up o…
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1. Introducing Dr. Marvin Galvez and Dr. Ahmed Seyam
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6:56Before our first episode on Innovating for Universal Health Coverage, we want to give you a chance to get to know our key country voices. In this episode we'll be joined by Dr. Marvin Galvez from The Philippines and Dr. Ahmed Seyam from Egypt, to discuss why they're passionate about their work, as well as learn about a few fun facts about each coun…
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Welcome to Season Two of the PPM Podcast!
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15:33In the opening episode of this season, you'll meet two of our technical experts, Dr. Kamaliah Noh and Tsolmon Tsilaajav as they discuss the link between the last season and this new season of this podcast. You'll hear a little bit about each of the upcoming episodes, as well as gain some insight as to why exactly we chose these topics. As you liste…
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Finally, the miniseries concludes with an episode on costing of health services. Experiences from Lebanon, Egypt and the Philippines provide insights into how costing can be carried out in a variety of different contexts. Insights from Dr. Rawan Hammoud and Dr. Ola Kdouh of Lebanon and Dr. Ahmed Khalifa of Egypt discuss some of the common challenge…
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Dr. Kenneth Munge shares the process Kenya undertook to develop a health benefits package—defining what services would be included and excluded for the push towards UHC. This episode details the process of developing the package, including the stakeholder engagement required and both the strengths and areas for improvement for the process undertake…
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This episode takes a deep dive into Ghana’s experience managing the escalating costs of the National Health Insurance Scheme, while creating incentives for quality and responsiveness to patients, through provider payment reform. Sister Eugenia Amporfu provides important insights into navigating provider resistance to payment reforms and the importa…
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1. Introduction to the PPM Podcast: What is Joint Learning?
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20:35The miniseries kicks off with a discussion of the joint learning model, with expert inputs from Kenya, Argentina, and Nigeria, on the role the JLN has played in their journey towards universal health coverage (UHC). Dr. Isabel Maina from Kenya explains the importance of taking a multi-sectoral approach to achieving UHC, discussing the need for inno…
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