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Is Private Health Care the Answer to the Health Problems of the World's Poor?

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE: The global burden of disease falls disproportionately upon the world's low-income countries, which are often struggling with weak health systems. Both the public and private sector deliver health care in these countries, but the appropriate role for each of these sectors in health system strengthening remains controversial. This debate examines whether the private sector should step up its involvement in the health systems of low-income countries.

Source: PLoS Medicine

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050233

Authors: Kara Hanson, Lucy Gilson, Catherine Goodman, Anne Mills, Richard Smith, Richard Feachem, Neelam Sekhri Feachem, Tracey Perez Koehlmoos, Heather Kinlaw

Institutions: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of Cape Town, University of California, San Francisco, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Wellcome Trust

Language: English

Topic: Healthcare Systems and Reforms

Subfield: Finance

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $6,460

Funders: National Science Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Health Organization, Kaiser Permanente, Wellcome Trust, Department for International Development, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

OpenAlex ID: W2116405488

FWCI: 11.07

Cites: 25

Cited by: 113

Related to: 10