Creating Economic Sustainability
FHI health economists help programs explore ways to generate local income to reduce reliance on external funding and cut costs by improving the use of existing resources. This is done by helping programs:
- Measure client ability to pay for reproductive health services
- Assess the impact of price increases on utilization, revenues, and client profile
- Identify strategies to improve cost recovery
- Assess current productivity of resources
- Estimate current cost per service in reproductive health programs
- Estimate costs of meeting future demand for reproductive health services under different assumptions of productivity
- Measure and compare the cost effectiveness of program alternatives
Past FHI Health Economics Projects
Global Operations Research (1998-2008): FHI worked with the Population Council's USAID-supported Frontiers in Reproductive Health project to help program managers to conduct financial analyses that can improve both the productivity of programs and the quality of care. Armed with economically sound information, managers were able to evaluate how to use resources more efficiently and generate revenue to make their programs sustainable.
Horizons (1997-2007): FHI was a partner in the Horizons project and worked with a coalition of U.S.-based and international organizations to design, implement, and evaluate programs on HIV/AIDS prevention and care.
See Also:
Health Economics topic page
