Non-profit, private or public?

Vaccines: policy for public good or private profit?

New Provider Models for Sweden and Spain: Public, Private or Non-profit?

Sweden and Spain experiment with different provider models to reform healthcare provision. Both models have in common that they extend the role of the for-profit sector in healthcare. As the analysis of Saltman and Duran demonstrates, privatisation is an ambiguous and contested strategy that is used for quite different purposes. In our comment, we emphasize that their analysis leaves questions ...

New Provider Models for Sweden and Spain: Public, Private or Non-profit?; Comment on “Governance, Government, and the Search for New Provider Models”

Sweden and Spain experiment with different provider models to reform healthcare provision. Both models have in common that they extend the role of the for-profit sector in healthcare. As the analysis of Saltman and Duran demonstrates, privatisation is an ambiguous and contested strategy that is used for quite different purposes. In our comment, we emphasize that their analysis leaves questions ...

Non-Profit Distribution: The Scottish Approach to Private Finance in Public Services

This article provides an analysis of the Scottish Government’s approach to the use of private finance in public services. It examines the budgetary drivers behind the policy in Scotland and assesses its cost-efficiency. In doing so, it considers first the standard private finance initiative (PFI) model, and then turns to the ‘non-profit distributing’ (NPD)model – a variant of PFI developed in S...

Radiography; Profit or Loss

The use of radiographic images in dentistry to diagnose caries and other dental diseases has always been inevitable. Almost half of all dental caries are diagnosed only by radiography. However, given the benefits of this method for diagnosing the disease, X-ray examinations have undeniable risks for the patient due to the use of ionizing radiation and their improper use increases the risk of th...