Private Health Providers in Developing Countries: Serving the Public Interest?

Private Health Providers in Developing Countries: Serving the Public Interest?

by SaraBennett (Author)

Synopsis

This work presents the results from a co-ordinated programme of research on the private health care sector including studies carried out by Asian, African and Latin American researchers. It draws upon both industrialized and developing country literature to describe the intellectual terrain, analyze the key issues and summarize experience.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 318
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
Published: Jun 1997

ISBN 10: 1856494969
ISBN 13: 9781856494960

Media Reviews
'A major step forward in thinking about private provision of health services and the public interest.'
Andrew Cresse, World Health Organization

'I Strongly recommend this book for policy makers.'
Asamoa Baah, Ministry of Health, Ghana

'Sure to be a key reference point. It significantly broadens our vision of real conditions in pluralistic health care systems.'
Peter Berman, Harvard School of Public Health
Author Bio
Barbara McPake is a professor in the Institute for Global Health and Development at Queen Margaret University.

Sara Bennett is an associate professor at the Center for Global Health, Johns Hopkins University.

Anne Mills is a professor of health economics and policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine