Call for papers JHOM: deadline 31st Sep: Policy challenges & innovative analyses of payment for performance in health care. Journal of Health Organization and Managagement
There has been a vast amount of publications based on the results of payment for performance worldwide, but the majority of them focused on a specific country or on countries from the same region or level of income. We have also witnessed the development of process analyses related to payment for performance based on a single country or group of countries in Africa. Therefore, we do not know yet how policy challenges related to payment for performance occur in different contexts in the world, and from the perspective of comparative and cross-country learning, and in-depth country analyses in most countries. For instance, the effects that policy challenges have had in the implementation, design or evaluation [but not only] of payment for performance have not been understood from an international viewpoint. The adoption of innovative approaches dealing with varied factors and forms of analysis would enable the generation of new evidences regarding policy challenges in payment for performance.
This special issue of Journal of Health Organization Management will gather together papers dealing with policy challenges and innovative analyses of payment for performance programmes (or performance-based financing programmes) in primary and secondary health care, in diverse health systems around the world. Papers will consider varied types of policy challenges including paradoxes and political alternatives (such as gaming and cheating), policy capacity (political, analytical and organisational/managerial capacity), practitioners’ and health teams’ motivations and inter-actions. From the perspective of health systems, this special issue will consider how payment for performance can affect, for instance, health systems’ main building blocks or components, such as leadership and workforce. We invite submissions using innovative types of analyses and methods including formulation/design and implementation studies, systems thinking and system strengthening, qualitative and mixed methods research, process tracing and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analyses, realist reviews or qualitative evidence synthesis, and comparative and case studies.
Anticipated themes for submissions include, but are not limited to:
- Comparative analysis of payment for performance across countries with different and same level of income
- Empirical studies focusing on the formulation/design and implementation of payment for performance programmes
- Paradoxes and challenges involved in the formulation/design and implementation of P4P/PBF (from political, organizational and health system perspectives)
- Influence or impact of payment for performance policy process on health systems and strengthening
- Policy learning from different phases/stages of payment for performance programmes in the same country, from countries in the same region or different regions
- Policy processes exploring how countries have moved away from clinical indicators to a more quality improvement focused approach
Submission Information
Deadline for submissions: 31st September 2020
Please refer to the author guidelines before submitting. All submissions must be made via ScholarOne. If you have any further queries, please contact the Guest Ediors.
Guest Editors
Fabiana da Cunha Saddi
Federal University of Goias, Brazil; University of Kent, UK
fasaddi@ufg.br
Lindsay Forbes
University of Kent, UK
l.forbes@kent.ac.uk
Stephen Peckham
University of Kent, UK
s.peckham@kent.ac.uk
