The study is focused on the public-private partnership in health sector in Sri Lanka. As a developing country, Sri Lanka faces a challenging task in order to improve the infrastructure facilities of the country after ending the thirty years of war. There is a requirement to develop the country as a whole along with all the industries such as education, health, transport, agriculture, etc. to me...

Economic growth in a country largely depends on the standards of its social infrastructure. Education and healthcare are twin most important areas of social infrastructure. It also covers care of the elderly people a good objective of which can be met through social security measures. This apart, social infrastructure also includes women empowerment which can be largely achieved through their e...

background india’s economic growth rate in recent years has been fairly impressive. but, it has been consistently failing to make considerable progress in achieving health related millennium development goal (mdg) targets. lack of coherence between provisions and utilization becomes the face of the problem. inadequacies in outreach, access and affordability coupled with escalating healthcare co...

The theme section of issue of the Bulletin brings into focus public–private partnerships (PPPs) with the pharmaceutical industry. The term public–private partnerships is currently receiving unprecedented exposure in international public health. However, there still appears to be limited consensus and some confusion as to what PPP means. One reason for this is that many commentators focus on the...

This paper gives examples of public/private partnerships that support research, support drug development and that advance policy development, suggesting that such partnerships can advance our understanding and control of emerging infections. The investment in emerging infectious diseases from government and from industry is currently much larger than that from philanthropy. Nevertheless philant...

Prudent health care policies that encourage public-private participation in health care financing and provisioning have conferred on Singapore the advantage of flexible response as it faces the potentially conflicting challenges of becoming a regional medical hub attracting foreign patients and ensuring domestic access to affordable health care. Both the external and internal health care market...

OBJECTIVE To describe and analyze the results of a public-private partnership between the Ministry of Health and a private hospital in a project of assistance and scientific research in the field of endovascular surgery. METHODS The flows, costs and clinical outcomes of patients treated in a the public-private partnership between April 2012 and July 2013 were analyzed. All patients underwent ...