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Private Public Partnerships in Georgia: A Case Study of Contracting NGO to provide Specialist Health Services
This case study provides details of a partnership that emerged in Georgia following the initiation of health sector reforms in 1995. It mainly focuses on describing the details of how and why the public purchaser – the State Medical Insurance Company (SMIC) – contracted a non-governmental…
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Quality and Accreditation in Health Care Services: A Global Review
This report provides an overview of the rationale, structures, activities, tools and technologies that characterize quality assurance and quality improvement and accreditation in health care. This aim is consistent with the increased worldwide interest in the quality of health systems that was…
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HIV Counseling and Testing for Youth: A Manual for Providers
At 1.7 billion strong, today's generation of youth is the largest in history. Among the many challenges young people face is the risk of HIV/AIDS. Youth account for an estimated half of the five million new HIV infections each year — approximately 6,000 young people become infected every day.…
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Working for God? Evaluating service delivery of religious not-for-profit health care providers in Uganda
Reinikka and Svensson exploit a unique micro-level data set on primary health care facilities in Uganda to address the question: What motivates religious not-for-profit (RNP) health care providers? The authors use two approaches to identify whether an altruistic (religious) effect exists in the…
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Private Health Care in Developing Countries
Private healthcare provision is growing in low and middle income countries. The poor, as well as the rich, often seek health care from private providers, including for conditions of public health importance such as malaria, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted infections. The reasons cited by…
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Private Health Care Provision in Developing Countries: A Preliminary Analysis of Levels and Composition
Although the World Health Organization publishes annual figures on physicians, nurses, paramedics, hospitals, and beds for most countries of the world, there are no international figures for the public and private components of this supply. Standard definitions are lacking. There has been little…
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Private sector assessment for health, nutrition and population (HNP) in Bangladesh
The objectives of this Private Sector Assessment (PSA) are to gain a better understanding of the private health care markets in Bangladesh, and to identify areas for increased collaboration between the government, and the private sector. While the study analyzes private health care markets in…
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Expanding The Private Sector Commercial Role In Meeting Reproductive Health Needs: Getting Down To Business
Governments in developing countries have an important role to play in making reproductive health products and services affordable for the poor and other under-served groups. Accordingly, efforts to improve access to family planning and other reproductive health care have focused primarily on the…
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Deep Dive Report: An Exploration for Innovation. Improving Quality in the Private Sector
On May 23, 2005, twenty-five participants representing USAID and 11 different Cooperating Agencies (CAs) and organizations met to discuss and determine how to strengthen the quality of health services provided by the private sector. The Deep Dive methodology is a facilitated knowledge-sharing…
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Summa and the INSS Investment Fund
Loans can support health care reform by strengthening and improving the private sector's delivery of reproductive health services under government contract.
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