Author : Seung-Hee Nah
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0821369482
This book is a practical guide for medical professionals with little or no business experience who are interested in establishing health care facilities in developing countries. It is an introduction to the kinds of basic research and planning required to identify viable solutions and reduce the risk of failure.
Author : Dean T. Jamison
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 1449 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 2006-04-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0821361805
Based on careful analysis of burden of disease and the costs ofinterventions, this second edition of 'Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition' highlights achievable priorities; measures progresstoward providing efficient, equitable care; promotes cost-effectiveinterventions to targeted populations; and encourages integrated effortsto optimize health. Nearly 500 experts - scientists, epidemiologists, health economists,academicians, and public health practitioners - from around the worldcontributed to the data sources and methodologies, and identifiedchallenges and priorities, resulting in this integrated, comprehensivereference volume on the state of health in developing countries.
Author : Amrita Dwivedi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1527541622
Beginning with an overview of the distribution and utilization of healthcare facilities in developing countries, this book presents an in-depth investigation of the role they play in Mau district, India. It analyses primary data collected through a sample survey of 680 households selected from 31 villages and two urban centres of Mau district. It then moves on to discuss the conceptual and theoretical framework of healthcare facilities, throwing light on the variation in their availability, accessibility and affordability. The book then considers the distribution of healthcare facilities, focusing on their spatio-temporal change and rural-urban variations, before moving on to addressing the relationship between the socio-economic characteristics of inhabitants and their utilization pattern of healthcare facilities in the area studied.
Author : Peter A. Berman
Publisher : Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
In Mexico City or Nairobi or Manila, a young girl in one part of the city is near death with measles, while, not far away, an elderly man awaits transplantation of a new kidney. How is one denied a cheap, simple, and effective remedy while another can command the most advanced technology medicine can offer? Can countries like Mexico, Kenya, or the Philippines, with limited funds and medical resources, find an affordable, effective, and fair way to balance competing health needs and demands? Such dilemmas are the focus of this insightful book in which leading international researchers bring together the latest thinking on how developing countries can reform health care. The choices these poorer countries make today will determine the pace of health improvement for vast numbers of people now and in the future. Exploring new ideas and concepts, as well as the practical experiences of nations in all parts of the world, this volume provides valuable insights and information to both generalists and specialists interested in how health care will look in the world of the twenty-first century.
Author : R. Paul Shaw
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821369504
Specialist groups have often advised health ministers and other decision makers in developing countries on the use of social health insurance (SHI) as a way of mobilizing revenue for health, reforming health sector performance, and providing universal coverage. This book reviews the specific design and implementation challenges facing SHI in low- and middle-income countries and presents case studies on Ghana, Kenya, Philippines, Colombia, and Thailand.
Author : Sara Bennett
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781856494953
New ideas on the role of the state in developing countries have considerable implications for the social sectors, especially health. 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 programme of research on the private health care sector including studies carried out by Asian, African and Latin American researchers. The conceptual chapters draw upon both industrialized and developing country literature to describe the intellectual terrain, analyse the key issues and summarize experience to date. This book will help increase understanding of the private sector, as well as illustrating the contentious issues involved in privatization. It will be useful to students and academics involved in international public health courses, and to health policy makers in developing countries.
Author : April Harding
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780821351529
Although many countries already make use of private sector services to achieve policy objectives in public health care provision, it remains a controversial topic. Drawing on a wide range of country experiences, this book considers the use of the private sector in the provision of public health services in developing countries, in terms of: assessing the potential for private sector involvement, contracting with the private sector for health services, regulating the sector, and what to do when key information is not available.
Author : Johannes Jütting
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Health insurance
ISBN :
Author : A. Venkat Raman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134035039
Public-private partnerships are increasingly advocated to alleviate deficiencies in the public health system as well as to reduce economic stress on those who seek services from an expensive, burgeoning and unregulated private health sector. Focusing on India, this book examines how the private sector in developing countries is tapped to deliver health care services to poor and under-served sections of society through collaborative arrangements with the government. Having emerged as a key reform initiative, aspects of public-private partnership are examined such as the genesis of private sector partnerships, the ways in which the private sector is encouraged to deliver public health services, and the models and formats that make such partnerships possible. Based on in-depth case studies from different states of India and drawing on experiences in other countries, the authors analyse challenges, opportunities and benefits of implementing public-private partnerships and explore whether partnership with the private sector can be designed to deliver health care services to the poor as well as the consequences for beneficiaries. This book will be of interest to scholars of public policy and development administration, health policy and development economics as well as South Asian Studies.
Author : Charles C. Griffin
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 16,59 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Medical
ISBN :
This paper discusses the nature of private sector involvement in health service delivery in developing countries, the potential for expanding it, and areas where health sector policy goals might benefit from greater private participation. It takes the wide and rarely occupied middle ground between the extreme pro-public and pro-private approaches to health care delivery. A simple distinction between the private and public sectors is applied -- anything not done by the government itself is treated as part of the private sector. The area of greatest potential for private sector involvement in developing countries is in hospital care. It would require, however, the development of third party payment systems and a re-evaluation in areas where governments are most heavily involved. This would allow governments to retreat to the simpler and more appropriate tasks of financing and regulating health service delivery. Governments probably cannot extract themselves completely form direct provision of curative care, especially in rural areas. Greater reliance on the private sector to supply remaining government facilities, however can stimulate the development of more diversified private markets and supply lines in rural areas.
