Bruno Meessen

Best Publications

• Out-of-pocket health expenditure and debt in poor households: evidence from Cambodia.

  Wim Van Damme;Luc Van Leemput;Ir Por;Wim Hardeman

  392
  Citations

• To retain or remove user fees?: reflections on the current debate in low- and middle-income countries.

  Chris D James;Kara Hanson;Barbara McPake;Dina Balabanova

  369
  Citations

• Performance-based financing: just a donor fad or a catalyst towards comprehensive health-care reform?

  Bruno Meessen;Agnès Soucat;Claude Sekabaraga

  277
  Citations

• Removing user fees in the health sector: a review of policy processes in six sub-Saharan African countries

  Bruno Meessen;David Hercot;Mathieu Noirhomme;Valéry Ridde

  230
  Citations

• The poorest of the poor: a poverty appraisal of households affected by visceral leishmaniasis in Bihar, India.

  M. Boelaert;F. Meheus;A. Sanchez;S. P. Singh

  229
  Citations

• Access to health care for all? User fees plus a Health Equity Fund in Sotnikum, Cambodia.

  Wim Hardeman;Wim Van Damme;Maurits Van Pelt;Ir Por

  212
  Citations

• Performance-Based Financing Toolkit

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  170
  Citations

• Reviewing institutions of rural health centres: the Performance Initiative in Butare, Rwanda.

  Bruno Meessen;Laurent Musango;Jean-Pierre I. Kashala;Jackie Lemlin

  165
  Citations

• Improving access to hospital care for the poor: comparative analysis of four health equity funds in Cambodia

  Mathieu Noirhomme;Bruno Meessen;Fred Griffiths;Por Ir

  141
  Citations

• Output-based payment to boost staff productivity in public health centres: contracting in Kabutare district, Rwanda

  Bruno Meessen;Jean-Pierre I Kashala;Laurent Musango

  141
  Citations

• Poverty and user fees for public health care in low-income countries: lessons from Uganda and Cambodia

  Bruno Meessen;Bruno Meessen;Wim Van Damme;Christine Kirunga Tashobya;Abdelmajid Tibouti

  135
  Citations

• Performance-based financing as a health system reform: mapping the key dimensions for monitoring and evaluation

  Sophie Witter;Jurrien J.M. Toonen;Bruno Meessen;Jean Kagubare

  134
  Citations

• A literature review of the disruptive effects of user fee exemption policies on health systems

  Valéry Ridde;Emilie Robert;Bruno Meessen

  132
  Citations

• Editorial: Iatrogenic poverty

  Bruno Meessen;Zhang Zhenzhong;Wim Van Damme;Narayanan Devadasan

  129
  Citations

• Studying the link between institutions and health system performance: a framework and an illustration with the analysis of two performance-based financing schemes in Burundi

  Maria Paola Bertone;Bruno Meessen

  107
  Citations

• Community participation and voice mechanisms under performance-based financing schemes in Burundi.

  Jean-Benoît Falisse;Bruno Meessen;Juvénal Ndayishimiye;Michel Bossuyt

  90
  Citations

• Communities of practice: the missing link for knowledge management on implementation issues in low-income countries?

  Bruno Meessen;Seni Kouanda;Laurent Musango;Fabienne Richard

  85
  Citations

• Performance-based financing: the same is different

  Dimitri Renmans;Dimitri Renmans;Nathalie Holvoet;Bart Criel;Bruno Meessen

  82
  Citations

• Removing user fees for health services in low-income countries: a multi-country review framework for assessing the process of policy change.

  David Hercot;Bruno Meessen;Valery Ridde;Lucy Gilson

  81
  Citations

• Composition of pluralistic health systems: how much can we learn from household surveys? An exploration in Cambodia

  Bruno Meessen;Maryam Bigdeli;Kannarath Chheng;Kristof Decoster

  77
  Citations