Research Catalog

Title

Private health providers in Developing countries : serving the public interest? / edited by Sara Bennett, Barbara McPake, and Anne Mills.

Publication

Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Zed Books, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Bennett, Sara.
• McPake, Barbara.
• Mills, Anne.

Description

xviii, 318 pages; 23 cm

Subject

Medical care > Developing countries > Finance

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The public/private mix debate in health care / Sara Bennett, Barbara McPake and Anne Mills -- Pt. 1. The behaviour and performance of private health providers. 2. The role of the private sector in health service provision / Barbara McPake. 3. Public and private practitioners in a rural district of Malaysia: complements or substitutes? / Syed Aljunid and Anthony Zwi. 4. Characteristics of public and private health-care providers in a Thai urban setting / Supasit Pannarunothai and Anne Mills. 5. Private practitioners in the slums of Karachi: professional development and innovative approaches for improving practice / Inayat H. Thaver and Trudy Harpham -- Pt. 2. The nature and characteristics of health-care markets. 6. Health-care markets: defining characteristics / Sara Bennett. 7. The nature of competition among private hospitals in Bangkok / Sara Bennett.
• 8. Monitoring product movement: an ethnographic study of pharmaceutical sales representatives in Bombay, India / Vinay R. Kamat and Mark Nichter. 9. The private-sector activities of public-sector health workers in Uganda / Delius Asumwe, Barbara McPake and Frances Mwesigye [et al.]. 10. Regulating the funding of private health care: the South African experience / Alex van den Heever. 11. The role of an NGO in the market for maternal and child health-care services in Mexico City / Teresita Ramirez, Beatriz Zurita and Carlos Cruz [et al.] -- Pt. 3. Contractual relationships between the public and private sectors. 12. Contractual relationships between government and the commercial private sector in developing countries / Anne Mills. 13. To purchase or to provide? The relative efficiency of contracting out versus direct public provision of hospital services in South Africa / Jonathan Broomberg, Patrick Masobe and Anne Mills.
• 14. Private-sector involvement in public hospitals: case-studies in Bangkok / Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Sanguan Nitayarumphong and Sukalaya Khongsawatt. 15. Contracting out of dietary services by public hospitals in Bombay / Mrigesh Bhatia and Anne Mills. 16. Contracting out of non-clinical services: the experience of Papua New Guinea / Elvira Beracochea. 17. Should African governments contract out clinical health services to church providers? / Lucy Gilson, Joseph Adusei and Dyna Arhin [et al.]. 18. Future research directions / Anne Mills, Sara Bennett and Barbara McPake.

ISBN

• 1856494950 (hb)
• 1856494969 (pb)

LCCN

97006650

OCLC

• 36520960
• ocm36520960
• SCSB-9452086

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries