The Public Private Mix for Health
The Public Private Mix for Health

Author: Alan Maynard

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-12-14

Total Pages: 601

ISBN-13: 1315345161

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Recent changes to the health service including new structures and ways of working at both local and national levels are having major influences on the working lives of every health visitor and community nurse and on their professional opportunities. Understanding these changes is essential and this practical and authoritative handbook addresses them all. The authors all have first-hand experience of the radical changes underway. The clear straightforward format is designed to allow quick access to relevant and up-to-date information. The book is vital reading for every community practitioner.

The Public/Private Sector Mix in Healthcare Delivery
The Public/Private Sector Mix in Healthcare Delivery

Author: Howard Palley

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-12-06

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0197571107

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"This volume examines the public/private sector mix in a number of national healthcare systems and their interface with the goals of health equity and quality of healthcare. Moreover, there is a consideration of public accountability. The unique significance of this collection of national studies involving the public/private sector mix of healthcare services and/or finances is that it provides insights into the factors that enhance the public/private sector mix in fulfilling the goals of health equity and the quality of healthcare services as well as an understanding of the circumstances in which elements of the public/private sector mix may be harmful for the achievement of such goals in a variety of national settings. The contributions to this volume provide a variety of perspectives in dealing with these objectives"--

Good Practices in Health Financing
Good Practices in Health Financing

Author: Pablo Enrique Gottret

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 0821375121

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This volume focuses on nine countries that have completed, or are well along in the process of carrying out, major health financing reforms. These countries have significantly expanded their people's health care coverage or maintained such coverage after prolonged political or economic shocks (e.g., following the collapse ofthe Soviet Union). In doing so, this report seeks to expand the evidence base on "good performance" in health financing reforms in low- and middle-income countries. The countries chosen for the study were Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Estonia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, and Vietnam.

The New Public/private Mix in Health
The New Public/private Mix in Health

Author: Jane Goudge

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 9782940286133

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Private health care providers play an increasingly important role in the health systems of many low-income and middle-income countries, easing some of the pressure on governments to provide health care services for all citizens and helping them to overcome funding constraints. The need to regulate the activities of the private sector has become increasingly apparent. However, many countries have little experience of regulation, and in low-income countries the priority of health ministries is to deliver basic health care, rather than implementing what are often "imported" regulatory frameworks.

The Public-private Mix in the Modern Health Care System
The Public-private Mix in the Modern Health Care System

Author: Dov Chernichovsky

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13:

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Private financing of care can make universal entitlement to care more comprehensive' and complete.' The possible combination -- at the point of service provision -- of privately acquired entitlement with the public entitlement, can impinge, however, upon the goals (e.g. improved health, equity, cost containment, care production efficiency, and client satisfaction from service) of the publicly supported health system. The potential to achieve these goals is at greatest risk in the combined system' (e.g., Australia) where, contrary to the segregated system' (e.g., Canada), the same providers are sanctioned to provide medical care under both private and public contracts. A combined system may be inevitable, however, for both economic and political reasons, especially where medical resources are relatively scarce. In this case, the Emerging Paradigm in health systems can offer the best possible solution to the public-private mix issue. In this paradigm, budget-holding institutions, intermediaries between financing entities and providers, organize and manage the consumption of care (OMCC) under public entitlement. The OMCC institutions can offer private insurance, to supplement to the public insurance', but supervise separate groups of providers, those working under public contracts and those working under private

Rethinking the Public-Private Mix in Higher Education
Rethinking the Public-Private Mix in Higher Education

Author: Pedro Teixeira

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-04-13

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9463009116

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In recent decades, we have seen the emergence of private higher education as a global reality. Although there are specific reasons for its appearance in each system, there is also a significant degree of commonality in the context and purposes surrounding the rise of private higher education as an important factor in many systems. The analysis of private higher education has tended to be focused at the national level, often highlighting national peculiarities and variations. In this volume the authors move forward by proposing a unifying and coherent, but flexible, theoretical framework that may be applied in different countries and diverse systems. Hence, the overall goal of this book is to provide a framework for a better understanding of the public-private mix of higher education and a set of policy guidelines in dealing with the expansion of private higher education from a comparative perspective. This analytical framework will be applied to four case-studies (Pakistan, Portugal, South Korea and Uruguay). These cases illustrate the diversity of contexts in the development of private higher education, though they also highlight important commonalities. Based on that analysis, we present some general recommendations to build a more effective policy-framework that takes advantage of the private sector in order to fulfill better the missions of the higher education system.

The Changing Public-private Mix in Nordic Healthcare
The Changing Public-private Mix in Nordic Healthcare

Author: John Øvretveit

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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The public health systems of the Nordic countries were established to provide care equitably to those in need, not to provide responsive consumer services. These systems are now at a crossroads. This report draws attention to the changes in and expansion of the private sector. It presents facts about financing and provision, and an analysis of the changes, their causes and consequences. The report concludes that Nordic citizens and governments need the private health sector, for a variety of reasons.

The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century
The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2003-02-01

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 0309133181

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The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.