In this context, the purpose of incentives would be to strengthen the accountability agreement.
The principle purpose of incentives is to motivate an agent (e.g. health service provider) to perform well when judged by the objectives of the principal (e.g. health care purchaser).
The purpose of incentives in this article is therefore not only to motivate high performance by rewarding desired behaviour but also to provide health care providers with the capacity to leverage change.
Even if the purpose of the incentive is to reward high performance, the response of a provider to a reward will be influenced by their costs of performing the tasks necessary to improve.
The purpose of such incentives, as described in the bill, is to guarantee access to coverage.
The idea behind human grouping, for purpose of designing effective incentive mechanisms, is that participants in each group will share similar social and economic goals, different from other groups and hence would be motivated differently.
If payroll taxes were always the same share of taxable earnings, we could ignore the distinction between the two for the purposes of quantifying incentives to work.
The Gulf States in particular had an unusual blend of high-tech, wealthy populations and suffocating political autocracies — almost a purpose-built laboratory of incentives to use technology to organize dissident speech.
For the purpose of this study a breastfeeding incentive scheme is referred to where incentive is defined as: 'A thing of perceived positive value, offered in order that a desirable health outcome may be obtained, to motivate or encourage an individual to change his or her behaviour' [ 2].
A number of issues emerged relating to awareness, trust, understanding of the purpose, visibility, incentives, regressivity, levels of taxation, terminology, communication about ETR and the use of alternative instruments.
