Contracting in mental health

Contracting and health.

Contracting in public health — the subject of this month’s theme issue — is more than just managing the privatization of services previously provided by governments. In 2003, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution in recognition of the huge untapped potential of contracting in public health, as well as the risks and pitfalls. In this interview, David Evans argues that if poorly implemen...

Use of contracting in public health.

Over the last ten years, an increasing number of countries, both developed and developing, have turned to cont tracting, the subject of the theme issue of the Bulletin, as a means of improving the performance of their health syst tems. Contracting is increasingly used as a tool to manage the relationships between the different types of actors in the health sector. It uses the logic of the marke...

Markets and Contracting in Health Care

Different approaches to contracting in health systems.

Contracting is one of the tools increasingly being used to enhance the performance of health systems in both developed and developing countries; it takes different forms and cannot be limited to the mere purchase of services. Actors adopt contracting to formalize all kinds of relations established between them. A typology for this approach will demonstrate its diversity and provide a better und...

Perinatal Mental Health: A Public Health Concern

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