Over the last six years, the behavioral healthcare industry, in general, and public sector delivery systems have undergone enormous change. Slowed in the growth of their commercial and HMO product lines, managed behavioral healthcare organizations (MBHOs) have merged, consolidated and actively pursued public sector business opportunities with a sense of urgency that could not have been foreseen...

It has long been advocated that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) offers a huge potential to answer many of the challenges that the healthcare sector is facing. Therefore, information technology applications are abundantly present in healthcare sector. ICT applications promise efficient tools to collect, store, process and communicate health-related data and information. In that re...

Healthcare PPPs where clinical services as well as infrastructure are delivered by the private sector are coming under the spotlight as governments seek to achieve value for money in health budgets. Existing examples are being reported as successful, however this article urges caution as a closer look at the evidence shows that handing over control of service delivery to the private sector is d...

South-East Asian Regional (SEAR) countries range from low- to middle-income countries and have considerable differences in mix of public and private sector expenditure on health. This study intends to estimate the income-elasticities of healthcare expenditure in public and private sectors separately for investigating whether healthcare is a 'necessity' or 'luxury' for citizens of these countrie...

The structure of the Canadian healthcare system, particularly in Ontario, has remained remarkably stable over the past 25 years. No other private sector industry employing hundreds of thousands of people, spending tens of billions of dollars annually and serving millions of consumers every day has survived for 30 years without the need to reinvent itself in quite fundamental ways. How then has ...

ever changing needs of society to which the health sector has to respond, makes the health sector reform inevitable for any country worldwide. increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of health services, equity, sustainable financing and management improvement are the main objectives of health sector reform. healthcare reform was set high on the new administration’s agenda with the start of ...