Labour militancy and private contracting: public hospital ancillary services

Hormozgan public and private hospital managers’ knowledge regarding

Introduction: Hospital managers make decisions based on the statistics and information obtained from Statistic and Medical Records Department (SMRD). Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical study which is to determine the knowledge and attitude of Hormozgan province hospital administrator regarding SMRD. 18 hospital administrators underwent study. Results: The among governmental hospital ad...

Public Purchaser-Private Provider Contracting for Health Services Examples from Latin America and the Caribbean

Katherine Slack is currently pursuing a Doctoral Degree in Business and Economics at Harvard University. William D. Savedoff is Senior Economist in the Sustainable Development Department of the IDB. The authors would like to express their gratitude to the individuals at the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank who provided their time and enthusiasm to make this study possible. We ...

Contracting private sector providers for public sector health services in Jalisco, Mexico: perspectives of system actors

INTRODUCTION Contracting out health services is a strategy that many health systems in the developing world are following, despite the lack of decisive evidence that this is the best way to improve quality, increase efficiency and expand coverage. A large body of literature has appeared in recent years focusing on the results of several contracting strategies, but very few papers have addressed...

Impact of Private Health Insurance on the Choice of Public versus Private Hospital Services

A Model for Public-Private Partnership in the Public Services Sector

Public-private partnership is a new way to expand public services through the private sector, which should be increasingly taken into consideration in Iran. This research aims at identifying effective factors in the success of public-private partnership and providing a model for the public services sector in Iran. The data collection tool was a questionnaire and the analytical unit and the stat...