Book Launch: "Hospital Performance in Brazil: The Search for Excellence" on May 27 at 3:00pm in J1-050

The World Bank Public Information Center/InfoShop & Human Development
Department, Latin America and the Caribbean Region

invite you to a launch of a recent World Bank publication

Hospital Performance in Brazil: The Search for Excellence

Hospitals are at the center of the health care universe in Brazil and are
critical to the health of many Brazilians. Hospitals are just as critical to the
health of the government?s budget, absorbing nearly 70 percent of public
spending on health, and are thus at the forefront of policy discussions. Why
hospitals are important is easy to understand. What makes hospitals deliver
quality care efficiently?or not?is much harder to grasp.

Drawing on an eclectic array of research and evaluative studies selected from a
mix of sources, Hospital Performance in Brazil: The Search for Excellence,
analyzes Brazilian hospital performance along several policy dimensions,
including resource allocation and use, payment mechanisms, organizational and
governance arrangements, management practices, and regulation and quality.

Although a few Brazilian hospitals are world-class centers of excellence, many
hospitals, including those who serve Brazil?s poorest, are low performers. Yet
the Brazilian hospital system is both dynamic and pluralistic, and herein lies
its strengths. As is shown throughout the book, Brazil does not lack
approaches, ideas, innovations, and initiatives for addressing the shortcomings
of underperforming facilities. The foundations for change aimed at raising
performance are present throughout the country?s hospital system. Building upon
these foundations, an agenda for hospital reform is proposed that synthesizes
policies and practices which are integral to improving hospital performance, and
which should help policymakers and practitioners in their ?search for
excellence.?

Tuesday, May 27
3:00 - 5:00pm
World Bank J Building
Auditorium J1-050
For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

CHAIRED BY
Julian Schweitzer
Director, Health, Nutrition and Population Team, World Bank

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Jerry La Forgia
Lead Health Specialist, Human Development Department, Latin America and the
Caribbean Region

DISCUSSED BY
Maureen Lewis
Advisor, Office of Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank

Mukesh Chawla
Sector Manager, Health, Nutrition and Population Team, World Bank

John Briscoe
Country Director, Brazil, World Bank

Robert Murray
Executive Director, Health Services Cost Review Commission, State of Maryland

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