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New ideas about the role of the state in developing countries have considerable implications for the social sectors, especially health care. Certain international organizations have advocated a larger role for private sector health care providers and many developing country governments have adopted this approach. Yet, until now, very little evidence has existed about how shifting the balance between public and private roles might affect equity, and the quality and efficiency of health care. This book presents the results from a coordinated program of research on the private health care sector including studies carried out by Asian, African, and Latin American researchers. Private Health Providers in Developing Countries will help increase understanding of the private sector, as well as illustrating the contentious issues involved in privatization.
'A major step forward in thinking about private provision of health services and the public interest.'
Andrew Cresse, World Health Organization
'I Strongly recommend this book for policy makers.'
Asamoa Baah, Ministry of Health, Ghana
'Sure to be a key reference point. It significantly broadens our vision of real conditions in pluralistic health care systems.'
Peter Berman, Harvard School of Public Health
| List of Tables | |
| List of Figures | |
| About the authors | |
| Preface | |
| The public/private mix debate in health care | p. 1 |
| The behaviour and performance of private health providers | p. 19 |
| The role of the private sector in health service provision | p. 21 |
| Public and private practitioners in a rural district of Malaysia: complements or substitutes? | p. 40 |
| Characteristics of public and private health-care providers in a Thai urban setting | p. 54 |
| Private practitioners in the slums of Karachi: professional development and innovative approaches for improving practice | p. 71 |
| The nature and characteristics of health-care markets | p. 83 |
| Health-care markets: defining characteristics | p. 85 |
| The nature of competition among private hospitals in Bangkok | p. 102 |
| Monitoring product movement: an ethnographic study of pharmaceutical sales representatives in Bombay, India | p. 124 |
| The private-sector activities of public-sector health workers in Uganda | p. 141 |
| Regulating the funding of private health care: the South African experience | p. 158 |
| The role of an NGO in the market for maternal and child health-care services in Mexico City | p. 174 |
| Contractual relationships between the public and private sectors | p. 187 |
| Contractual relationships between government and the commercial private sector in developing countries | p. 189 |
| To purchase or to provide? The relative efficiency of contracting out versus direct public provision of hospital services in South Africa | p. 214 |
| Private-sector involvement in public hospitals: case-studies in Bangkok | p. 237 |
| Contracting out of dietary services by public hospitals in Bombay | p. 250 |
| Contracting out of non-clinical services: the experience of Papua New Guinea | p. 264 |
| Should African governments contract out clinical health services to church providers? | p. 276 |
| Future research directions | p. 303 |
| Index | p. 313 |
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ISBN: 9781856494960
ISBN-10: 1856494969
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 336
Published: 1st August 1997
Publisher: ZED BOOKS LTD
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 21.59 x 13.97
x 2.54
Weight (kg): 0.39
Edition Number: 1
