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Privatizing Health Services in Africa

Author : Meredeth Turshen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813525815
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Privatizing Health Services in Africa written by Meredeth Turshen and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privatizing Health Services in Africa analyzes the disappearance of public health in the form of state services in Africa, and the growth of a private market in health care that will serve primarily an urban elite. Meredeth Turshen considers the implications of introducing private insurance in countries with growing unemployment, a shrinking formal job sector, and a lack of social security programs or other safety nets. She debates the pros and cons of shifting the delivery of health services to the nongovernmental sector in the context of new concepts of the role of the state. Many of the schemes to privatize the purchase and sale of pharmaceuticals reverse decades of United Nations work challenging the power of the multinational drug industry. Turshen weighs these policy changes in light of the World Bank's eclipse of the World Health Organization as the premier UN health policy agency. Until now, no book has disputed the World Bank's plans to privatize health care in Africa. This is the first book-length analysis of policy changes in light of monetarism and globalization. Throughout the book, Turshen examines the implications of privatization for gender equity. She also provides a case study of Zimbabwe and comparative material from Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. Her study makes a contribution to current debates on the impact of structural adjustment policies on health and the design of health services in the Third World.

Healthy Partnerships

Author :
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821384732
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Healthy Partnerships written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the private health sector is an important, and often dominant, provider of health services in Sub-Saharan Africa, it is the job of governments as the stewards of the health system to engage with it. Increasing the contributions that the existing private health sector is making to public health is an important, but often neglected, element of meeting the daunting health-related challenges facing African nations. This Report presents newly collected data on how and how effectively each country in the Africa region is engaging the respective private health sectors; and how the engagement compares across the region. While the approach taken by governments varies greatly between countries, there is much room for improvement in the Africa region overall to engage more effectively and room for exchange of ideas and good practices on how to do so. Improved solutions on the policy/regulatory side should be supported by effective organization of the private sector itself and by adjustments in donor programs that take the dynamics of the private health sector better into account.

Private Health Sector Assessment in Kenya

Author : Jeff Barnes
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821383636
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Private Health Sector Assessment in Kenya written by Jeff Barnes and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper broadly examines the health sector in Kenya, by synthesizing an assessment of the health sector with an analysis of the market. After considering the legal and regulatory framework, the policy enforcement, the human resource capacity, and the financing of health systems, the paper makes recommendations for policy makers.

Towards better engagement of the private sector in health service delivery

Author :
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9240047271
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Towards better engagement of the private sector in health service delivery written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Private Participation in Health Services

Author : April Harding
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821351529
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Private Participation in Health Services written by April Harding and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many countries already make use of private sector services to achieve policy objectives in public health care provision, it remains a controversial topic. Drawing on a wide range of country experiences, this book considers the use of the private sector in the provision of public health services in developing countries, in terms of: assessing the potential for private sector involvement, contracting with the private sector for health services, regulating the sector, and what to do when key information is not available.

Governing Health Systems in Africa

Author : Martyn Sama
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 2869784031
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Governing Health Systems in Africa written by Martyn Sama and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on various disciplinary perspectives, this book re-focuses the debate on what makes a good health system, with a view to clarifying the uses of social science research in thinking about health care issues in Africa. The explosion of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the persistence of malaria as a major killer, and the resurgence of diseases like tuberculosis which were previously under control, have brought about changes in the health system, with implications for its governance, especially in view of the diminished capacity of the public health facilities to cope with a complex range of expanded needs. Government responsibilities and objectives in the health sector have been redefined, with private sector entities (both for profit and not-for profit) playing an increasingly visible role in health care provisions. The reasons for collaborative patterns vary, but chronic under-funding of publicly financed health services is often an important factor. Processes of decentralisation and health sector reforms have had mixed effects on health care system performance; while private health insurance markets and private clinics are pointers to a growing stratification of the health market, in line with the intensified income and social differentiation that has occurred over the last two decades.These developments call for health sector reforms.

Health Care in South Africa

Author : H. C. J. Van Rensburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Health Care in South Africa written by H. C. J. Van Rensburg and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa

Author : Ruth J. Prince
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821444662
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa written by Ruth J. Prince and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa has emerged as a prime arena of global health interventions that focus on particular diseases and health emergencies. These are framed increasingly in terms of international concerns about security, human rights, and humanitarian crisis. This presents a stark contrast to the 1960s and ‘70s, when many newly independent African governments pursued the vision of public health “for all,” of comprehensive health care services directed by the state with support from foreign donors. These initiatives often failed, undermined by international politics, structural adjustment, and neoliberal policies, and by African states themselves. Yet their traces remain in contemporary expectations of and yearnings for a more robust public health. This volume explores how medical professionals and patients, government officials, and ordinary citizens approach questions of public health as they navigate contemporary landscapes of NGOs and transnational projects, faltering state services, and expanding privatization. Its contributors analyze the relations between the public and the private providers of public health, from the state to new global biopolitical formations of political institutions, markets, human populations, and health. Tensions and ambiguities animate these complex relationships, suggesting that the question of what public health actually is in Africa cannot be taken for granted. Offering historical and ethnographic analyses, the volume develops an anthropology of public health in Africa. Contributors:Hannah Brown, P. Wenzel Geissler, Murray Last, Rebecca Marsland, Lotte Meinert, Benson A. Mulemi, Ruth J. Prince, Noémi Tousignant, and Susan Reynolds Whyte

Private Hospitals in South Africa

Author : Jonathan Broomberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private Hospitals in South Africa written by Jonathan Broomberg and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II

Author : Mario J. Azevedo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319325647
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Book Synopsis Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II by : Mario J. Azevedo

Download or read book Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II written by Mario J. Azevedo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Africa’s challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health problems in Africa are not a result of scarce or lack of resources, but of the misconceived and misplaced priorities that have left the continent behind every other on the globe in terms of health, education, and equitable distribution of opportunities and access to (quality) health as agreed by the United Nations member states at Alma-Ata in 1978.

Transforming Health Markets in Asia and Africa

Author : Gerald Bloom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136238239
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Health Markets in Asia and Africa written by Gerald Bloom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades. This has substantially increased the availability of health-related goods and services in all but the most remote localities, but it has created problems with safety, efficiency and cost. The effort to bring order to these chaotic markets is almost certain to become one of the greatest challenges in global health. This book documents the problems associated with unregulated health markets and presents innovative approaches that have emerged to address them. It outlines a framework that researchers, policy makers and social entrepreneurs can use to analyse health market systems and assess the likely outcome of alternative interventions. The book presents a new way of understanding highly marketised health systems, applies this understanding to an analysis of health markets in countries across Asia and Africa and identifies some of the major new developments for making these markets perform better in meeting the needs of the poor. It argues that it is time to move beyond ideological debates about the roles of public and private sectors in an ideal health system and focus more on understanding the operation of these markets and developing practical strategies for improving their performance. This book is ideal reading for researchers and students in public health, development studies, public policy and administration, health economics, medical anthropology, and science and technology studies. It is also a valuable resource for policy makers, social entrepreneurs, and planners and managers in public and private sector health systems, including pharmaceutical companies, aid agencies, NGOs and international organisations.

Private Health Sector Assessment in Tanzania

Author : James White
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464800421
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Private Health Sector Assessment in Tanzania written by James White and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tanzania Private Health Sector Assessment provides information on the size, location and characteristics of non-state health service providers in Tanzania. It also identifies challenges and opportunities for the Government of Tanzania and International Community to leverage the potential of these providers to achieve

Private Health Sector Assessment in Ghana

Author : Ricardo A. Bitran
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821387472
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Private Health Sector Assessment in Ghana written by Ricardo A. Bitran and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Health Sector Assessment in Ghana is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank?s ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion. The private health sector in Ghana is a large and important sector in the market for health-related goods and services. However, little has been documented concerning the size and configuration of private providers and their contribution to health sector outcomes. With better information about the size, scope, distribution, and constraints of private actors, Ghana?s public policy makers

Impact of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-income Countries

Author : Maria-Luisa Escobar
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815705468
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Book Synopsis Impact of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-income Countries by : Maria-Luisa Escobar

Download or read book Impact of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-income Countries written by Maria-Luisa Escobar and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past twenty years, many low- and middle-income countries have experimented with health insurance options. While their plans have varied widely in scale and ambition, their goals are the same: to make health services more affordable through the use of public subsidies while also moving care providers partially or fully into competitive markets. Until now, however, we have known little about the actual effects of these dramatic policy changes. Understanding the impact of health insurance-based care is key to the public policy debate of whether to extend insurance to low-income populationsand if so, how to do itor to serve them through other means.

Health and Health Care in South Africa

Author : H. C. J. Van Rensburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health and Health Care in South Africa written by H. C. J. Van Rensburg and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health and healthcare in South Africa attempts to capture the essence of transformation and trends in the South African health sector. It offers, on the one hand, an overview of recent and current developments in the South African health care system, and on the other, of trends in the health status of the South African population. The book is a follow-up to the well-known Health care in South Africa - structure and dynamics (Van Rensburg, Fourie & Pretorius 1992), published just before the transition to a democratic society. The book retains a strong historical thread, but the focus is generally on the nature of the transformation process, gains made and failures encountered.

Private Health Providers in Developing Countries

Author : Sara Bennett
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856494953
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book Private Health Providers in Developing Countries written by Sara Bennett and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New ideas on the role of the state in developing countries have considerable implications for the social sectors, especially health. Certain international organizations have advocated a larger role for private sector health care providers and many developing country governments have adopted this approach. Yet, until now, very little evidence has existed about how shifting the balance between public and private roles might affect equity, and the quality and efficiency of health care. This book presents the results from a coordinated programme of research on the private health care sector including studies carried out by Asian, African and Latin American researchers. The conceptual chapters draw upon both industrialized and developing country literature to describe the intellectual terrain, analyse the key issues and summarize experience to date. This book will help increase understanding of the private sector, as well as illustrating the contentious issues involved in privatization. It will be useful to students and academics involved in international public health courses, and to health policy makers in developing countries.

Health Services Privatization in Industrial Societies

Author : Joseph L. Scarpaci
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health Services Privatization in Industrial Societies written by Joseph L. Scarpaci and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international look at the theory and practice of health service privatization. The book examines the restructuring of health care systems and argues that conflicts implicit in privatization will limit the extent to which any government can dismantle its health care services.