BIBFRAME Work

Title

Embracing mixed health systems

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Harding, April, 1964- (author )
• Montagu, Dominic (author )

Subject

• Public-Private Sector Partnerships (MESH)
• Health Care Sector (MESH)

Language

• eng

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

• DDC: 362.1 (Assigner: dlc)
• NLM: W 74.1 (Assigner: dnlm) (Status: uba)
• LCC: RA418 .H334 2025 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

The Private Sector and Public Health -- The Provision of Private Healthcare Services in European Countries : Recent Data and Lessons for Universal Health Coverage in Other Settings -- Standard Survey Data : Insights Into Private -- Sector Utilization -- Who Serves the Poor? An Equity Analysis of Public and Private Providers of Family Planning and Child -- Health Services in Kenya -- Prohibit, Constrain, Encourage, or Purchase : How Should We Engage with the Private Health-Care Sector? -- Recent Trends in Working with the Private Sector to Improve Basic Healthcare - A Review of Evidence and Interventions -- Embracing Mixed Health Systems : Navigating the Development Trap -- Private Patients Prelude : The Poor Health of Health Programs -- Private Sector : Here, and Here to Stay -- The Private Sector and Malaria -- The Private Sector in TB Programs -- Family Planning and the Role of the Private Sector -- Child Health.

Authorized Access Point

Harding, April, 1964-. Embracing mixed health systems

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:11:33.763663+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23654200

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc