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  • January 2018
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Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Mahek A. Shah
  • Format:Print
  • | Language:English
  • | Pages:17
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Abstract

Partners in Health, a global NGO focused on delivering health care to residents of rural underserved communities, conducts a project on the cost of primary care at five sites in the Central Highlands of Haiti. It devises a simple approach for tracking the resources used by patients being treated for diverse medical conditions, as an input to a time-driven activity-based costing model. The results show considerable cost diversity across the five sites, but organizational leaders differ on the interpretation and action implications of the findings.

Keywords

Global Health; Public Health; Health Care and Treatment; Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Rural Scope; Health Industry; Haiti

Citation

Kaplan, Robert S., and Mahek A. Shah. "Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti." Harvard Business School Case 118-051, January 2018.

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Robert S. Kaplan

Accounting and Management
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