Private Health Providers in Developing Countries

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

• List of TablesList of FiguresAbout the AuthorsPreface1. The Public/Private Mix Debate in Health Care - Sara Bennett, Barbara McPake and Anne MillsPart I: The Behaviour and Performance of Private Health Providers2. The Role of the Private Sector in Health Service Provision - Barbara McPake3. Public and Private Practitioners in a Rural District of Malaysia: Complements or Substitutes? - Syed Alijunid and Anthony Zwi4. Characteristics of Public and Private Health-Care Providers in a Thai Urban Setting - Supasit Pannarunothai and Anne Mills5. Private Practitioners in the Slums of Karachi: Professional Development and Innovative Approaches for Improving Practice - Inayat H. Thaver and Trudy HarphamPart II: The Nature and Characteristics of Health-Care Markets6. Health-Care Markets: Defining Characteristics - Sara Bennett7. The Nature of Competition Among Private Hospitals in Bangkok - Sara Bennett8. Monitoring Product Movement: An Ethnographic Study of Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives in Bombay, India - Vinay R. Kamat and Mark Nichter9. The Private-Sector Activities of Public-Sector Health Workers in Uganda - Delius Asiimwe, Barbara McPake, Frances Mwesigye, Matthias Ofoumbi, Lisbeth Ørtenblad, Pieter Steefland and Asaph Turinde10. Regulating the Funding of Private Health Care: The South African Experience - Alex van den Heever11. The Role of an NGO in the Market for Maternal and Child Health-Care Services in Mexico City - Teresita Ramirez, Beatriz Zurita, Carlos Cruz, Manuel Recio and Carlos VargasPart III: Contractual Relationships Between the Public and Private Sectors12. Contractual Relationships Between Government and the Commercial Private-Sector in Developing Countries - Anne Mills13. 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 Mills14. Private-Sector Involvement in Public Hospitals: Case-Studies in Bangkok - Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Sanguan Nitayarumphong and Sukalaya Khongsawatt15. Contracting Out of Dietary Services by Public Hospitals in Bombay - Mrigesh Bhatia and Anne Mills16. Contracting Out of Non-Clinical Services: The Experience of Papua New Guinea - Elvira Beracochea17. Should African Governments Contract Out Clinical Health Services to Church Providers? - Lucy Gilson, Joseph Adusei, Dyna Arhin, Charles Hongoro, Phare Mujinja and Ken Sagoe18. Future Research Directions - Anne Mills, Sara Bennett and Barbara McPakeIndex

'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