Dear John,

ICYMI, Cristian Herrera of the World Bank appeared on A Health Podyssey to discuss his recent paper, which sought to identify disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to routine health care services and how eight Latin American and Caribbean countries responded.

Evaluating The Collaborative Approach To Public Good Investments Model

In the January issue of Health Affairs, Lauren Taylor of New York University and Len Nichols of the Urban Institute assess the implementation of their financing model to incentivize and coordinate local social determinants of health (SDOH) investments.

The model, called the Collaborative Approach to Public Good Investments (CAPGI) creates “payment rules through which local, self-interested stakeholders can invest in a common project that will benefit each stakeholder individually and all stakeholders simultaneously.”

They determine that CAPGI’s success was facilitated by a defined structure for collaborative decision-making processes and a confidential bidding process that lowered the perceived financial risk of collaboration.

While Taylor and Nichols detail some of the limitations of CAPGI, including administrative costs, they see CAPGI as having the potential to fund investments that change the social and economic conditions of communities.

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