Public hospitals: options for reform through private-public partnerships
Rob Taylor; Simon Blair
As governments struggle with rising health care costs, public-private in partnerships in constructing and anaging public hospitals can provide innovative ways to control costs and improve service. Experience shows that such partnerships offer significant benefits as long ...

Public-Private Partnerships and Collaboration in the Health Sector
Irina A. Nikolic ; Harald Maikisch
This brief is intended to provide an overview of the topic of public-private partnerships (PPPs) and public-private collaboration (PPC) in the health sector, the key types of PPPs and PPC encountered in practice, the associated benefits and risks, and good practices for ...

Trends and opportunities in public-private partnerships to improve health service delivery in Africa
Par Tonia Marek; Catherine O’Farrell; Chiaki Yamamoto; Ilyse Zable
En Afrique sub-saharienne, on constate une prise de conscience accrue de l’importance du secteur privé dans le cadre de la prestation de services de santé. Les prestataires du secteur privé englobent les guérisseurs raditionnels, les vendeurs informels de médicaments, les ...

Cambodia - Using contracting to reduce inequity in primary health care delivery
J. Brad Schwartz; Indu Bhushan
This study examines the equity impact of using private sector contracts for the delivery of primary health care as an alternative to traditional government provision in Cambodia. It does so by using pre- and post intervention data from a large scale contracting experiment ...

Contracting for the delivery of community health services a review of global experience
Benjamin Loevinsohn ; April Harding
To achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals, it will be necessary to improve the delivery of health services, particularly to poor people. One proposed approach to improving both coverage and quality of care is to contract with NGOs or other non-state entities ...

India private health services for the poor
Ismail Radwan
Despite India’s great strides since Independence, fertility, mortality and morbidity remain unacceptably high. Although poverty and low levels of education are the root causes of poor health outcomes, poor stewardship over the health system bears some responsibility. Although ...

Public and private roles in health theory and financing patterns
Philip Musgrove
The appropriate role of the state in health is complex both in economic theory and in practice. Theory identifies three reasons for state action: public goods or services with large externalities (involving efficiency); poverty (involving equity); and failings peculiar ...