OBJECTIVE To assess and compare the preferences of pregnant women in the public and private sector regarding delivery in Brazil. DESIGN Face to face structured interviews with women who were interviewed early in pregnancy, about one month before the due date, and about one month post partum. SETTING Four cities in Brazil. PARTICIPANTS 1612 pregnant women: 1093 public patients and 519 priv...

This study determined trends in the contributions of the public and private sectors to the cataract surgery output in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Data about cataract surgeries performed at surgical centres throughout the nation were extracted from patient charts for a 5-year period from 2006 to 2010. Of the total 516 273 surgeries performed in 2010, more were done in public sector centres (61...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND There is a highly inequitable distribution of health workers between public and private sectors in South Africa, partly due to within-country migration trends. This article elaborates what South African medical specialists find satisfying about working in the public and private sectors, at present, and how to better incentivize retention in the public sector. METHODS ...

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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of lipid profile screening according to the mode of financing of medical appointments - public or private. METHODS A population-based cross-sectional study was carried out with a multi-stage sampling strategy. The study included 3,136 adults (>or=20 years old) from the city of Pelotas, Southern Brazil, in 2006. The following indicators were calculated: co...

this article tries to study the increase or decrease in the performance of the divested companies to the non-governmental public sector and the private sector compared to the period before the divestiture and then it tries compare the private sector and the nongovernmental public sector in improving the performance indexes. to answer two basic questions of the research, the financial indicators...

employees’ attitude towards his/her job differs across organization’s sector. the present study aimed to find out the differences in employee’s attitude in public and private sector. for this purpose, managers’ reward power and coercive power were taken as independent variables and their impact on employees’ job satisfaction (dependent variable) was examined in both sectors. sample of 130 respo...

Background Health expenditures are divided in two parts of public and private health expenditures. Public health expenditures contain social security spending, taxing to private and public sectors, and foreign resources like loans and subventions. On the other hand, private health expenditures contain out of pocket expenditures and private insurances. Each of these has different effects on the ...