NDLI: The effects of decentralized financing and funding levels on the breadth of services and structural quality to provide those services in primary health facilities in Nigeria

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Author	Hagedorn, Brittany Cooper, Jeremy Loevinsohn, Benjamin Martufi, Valentina
Abstract	Background To improve service delivery of Nigeria’s primary health care (PHC) system, the government tested two approaches for facility-level financing: performance-based financing (PBF) and decentralized facility financing (DFF). Facilities also had increased autonomy, supervision, and community oversight. We examine how the intervention approach and funding level affected breadth of services and structural quality. Methods We use health facility surveys previously collected in 2014 and 2017, covering three years of implementation, in which districts were randomly assigned PBF or DFF and compared to matched districts in control states. We use log-linear regressions and non-parametric statistics to estimate the effect size of the financing approach and level of funding per capita. Results Service availability was highest in PBF facilities, while DFF also outperformed control on most measures. Results showed that structural readiness and service offerings both increased with more funding, especially under DFF. DFF and PBF facilities were better equipped to provide services that they claimed to offer, which was not the case for controls. Overall, PBF outperformed DFF, partially explained by funding levels. The rate of offering complimentary services followed a pattern of easiest-to-hardest to deliver. Conclusion PBF and DFF both improved the breadth and structural quality of services, although DFF performance was more sensitive to funding levels. Improvements were observed at relatively low levels of funding, but larger investments were associated with better performance. Most DFF facilities exceeded the performance of higher-funded controls, implying that funding was more valuable in the context of autonomy, increased supervision, and community oversight.
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ISSN	14726963
DOI	10.1186/s12913-025-12512-3
Journal	BMC Health Services Research
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	25
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2025-03-18
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Public Health Health Administration Health Informatics Nursing Research Nigeria PHC Structural quality Facility financing Services
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Health Policy

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
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