This book examines policies and programs which overcome the barriers that too often impede policy makers and aid agencies from effectively engaging with private health providers to assure and improve care.
The private health sector plays a critical role in developing countries, as it often provides a large share of all care. In most countries, it is impossible to improve health services and products without engaging the private sector, and without this engagement health outcomes stagnate. Yet, policy makers and aid agencies often overlook this, preferring to stick with familiar approaches to health goals — grounded in public agencies and public services. This ingrained public-sector-centrism undermines program effectiveness and sustainability.
Using case studies from Bangladesh's tuberculosis program to Estonia's contracted primary care, to Brazil's hospital public-private partnerships, this book gives examples of how policy makers and aid agencies are making efforts to involve the private sector in their health systems. Building from these examples, this book explores the implications for the kind of development assistance that is necessary to be more effective in supporting these initiatives.
This book is an invaluable resource for policy makers, analysts, economists, and development specialists looking to improve programs, policies, and systems and leverage all of the resources in low- and middle-income countries to advance public health.
Contents:
- Overview:
- The Private Sector and Public Health (Dominic Montagu)
- Size, Scale, and Context:
- The Provision of Private Healthcare Services in European Countries: Recent Data and Lessons for Universal Health Coverage in Other Settings (Dominic Montagu)
- Standard Survey Data: Insights into Private Sector Utilization (Dominic Montagu and Nirali Chakraborty)
- Who Serves the Poor? An Equity Analysis of Public and Private Providers of Family Planning and Child Health Services in Kenya (Nirali Chakraborty, Dominic Montagu, Joyce Wanderi, and Christine Oduor)
- Prohibit, Constrain, Encourage, or Purchase: How Should We Engage with the Private Health-Care Sector? (Dominic Montagu and Catherine Goodman)
- Recent Trends in Working with the Private Sector to Improve Basic Healthcare — A Review of Evidence and Interventions (Dominic Montagu, Catherine Goodman, Peter Berman, Amy Penn, and Adam Visconti)
- Lessons from the Field:
- Private Patients Prelude: The Poor Health of Health Programs (April L Harding)
- Private Sector: Here, and Here to Stay (Dominic Montagu)
- The Private Sector and Malaria (Albert Kilian)
- The Private Sector in TB Programs (Mukund Uplekar)
- Family Planning and the Role of the Private Sector (Ruth Berg and April L Harding)
- Child Health (Flavia Bustreo)
Readership: Policy makers, analysts, economists, and development specialists looking to improve health programs, policies, and systems in low- and middle-income countries.
April Harding is an economist and health policy researcher based in Washington DC. She has more than 25 years of international health experience focused on health systems and governance. While with the World Bank, April had a number of different roles at the intersection of analysis, advice to decision-makers, education and strategy. She led the World Bank Institute's 'Managing Markets for Health' initiative, which developed and delivered face-to-face and online courses on strategies for managing health markets to policy practitioners in developing and transition countries. She advised policy makers on private health sector policy, public-private partnerships, managing mixed health systems, as well as hospital reform. She provided advice to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the development of their strategy for investments to support health systems strengthening. She served as a Contributing Editor at Health Affairs, where she helped the journal develop their international health coverage.Dominic Montagu is Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco and CEO of the Baltimore-based NGO, Metrics for Management. He has 30 years of experience focused on private delivery of health services in developing countries, on effective performance measurement, and on market functioning for health services and health commodities. Dr Montagu has taught courses on private sector financing and policy around the world for the World Bank, DFID, USAID, and the Asian Network for Health System Strengthening.
This book examines policies and programs which overcome the barriers that too often impede policy makers and aid agencies from effectively engaging with private health providers to assure and improve care.
The private health sector plays a critical role in developing countries, as it often provides a large share of all care. In most countries, it is impossible to improve health services and products without engaging the private sector, and without this engagement health outcomes stagnate. Yet, policy makers and aid agencies often overlook this, preferring to stick with familiar approaches to health goals — grounded in public agencies and public services. This ingrained public-sector-centrism undermines program effectiveness and sustainability.
Using case studies from Bangladesh's tuberculosis program to Estonia's contracted primary care, to Brazil's hospital public-private partnerships, this book gives examples of how policy makers and aid agencies are making efforts to involve the private sector in their health systems. Building from these examples, this book explores the implications for the kind of development assistance that is necessary to be more effective in supporting these initiatives.
This book is an invaluable resource for policy makers, analysts, economists, and development specialists looking to improve programs, policies, and systems and leverage all of the resources in low- and middle-income countries to advance public health.
Contents:
- Overview:
- The Private Sector and Public Health (Dominic Montagu)
- Size, Scale, and Context:
- The Provision of Private Healthcare Services in European Countries: Recent Data and Lessons for Universal Health Coverage in Other Settings (Dominic Montagu)
- Standard Survey Data: Insights into Private Sector Utilization (Dominic Montagu and Nirali Chakraborty)
- Who Serves the Poor? An Equity Analysis of Public and Private Providers of Family Planning and Child Health Services in Kenya (Nirali Chakraborty, Dominic Montagu, Joyce Wanderi, and Christine Oduor)
- Prohibit, Constrain, Encourage, or Purchase: How Should We Engage with the Private Health-Care Sector? (Dominic Montagu and Catherine Goodman)
- Recent Trends in Working with the Private Sector to Improve Basic Healthcare — A Review of Evidence and Interventions (Dominic Montagu, Catherine Goodman, Peter Berman, Amy Penn, and Adam Visconti)
- Lessons from the Field:
- Private Patients Prelude: The Poor Health of Health Programs (April L Harding)
- Private Sector: Here, and Here to Stay (Dominic Montagu)
- The Private Sector and Malaria (Albert Kilian)
- The Private Sector in TB Programs (Mukund Uplekar)
- Family Planning and the Role of the Private Sector (Ruth Berg and April L Harding)
- Child Health (Flavia Bustreo)
Readership: Policy makers, analysts, economists, and development specialists looking to improve health programs, policies, and systems in low- and middle-income countries.
April Harding is an economist and health policy researcher based in Washington DC. She has more than 25 years of international health experience focused on health systems and governance. While with the World Bank, April had a number of different roles at the intersection of analysis, advice to decision-makers, education and strategy. She led the World Bank Institute's 'Managing Markets for Health' initiative, which developed and delivered face-to-face and online courses on strategies for managing health markets to policy practitioners in developing and transition countries. She advised policy makers on private health sector policy, public-private partnerships, managing mixed health systems, as well as hospital reform. She provided advice to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the development of their strategy for investments to support health systems strengthening. She served as a Contributing Editor at Health Affairs, where she helped the journal develop their international health coverage.Dominic Montagu is Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco and CEO of the Baltimore-based NGO, Metrics for Management. He has 30 years of experience focused on private delivery of health services in developing countries, on effective performance measurement, and on market functioning for health services and health commodities. Dr Montagu has taught courses on private sector financing and policy around the world for the World Bank, DFID, USAID, and the Asian Network for Health System Strengthening.
EMBRACING MIXED HEALTH SYSTEMS: Navigating the Development Trap
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EMBRACING MIXED HEALTH SYSTEMS: Navigating the Development Trap
476
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789811291869 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | WSPC |
| Publication date: | 10/18/2024 |
| Series: | WS SERIES IN HEALTH INVESTMENT & FINANCING , #7 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 476 |
| File size: | 13 MB |
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