Improving Emerging Markets Healthcare through Private Provision

The role of private enterprise in healthcare is to complement and support improvements to public healthcare, not to supplant it. Private providers are the primary source of care for the world’s poorest people and their record is often as good as or...

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Main Authors: Walton, Tom, Matthees, Kevin
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC 2018
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/968991486541026375/Improving-emerging-markets-healthcare-through-private-provision
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spelling okr-10986-303582021-05-25T10:54:41Z Improving Emerging Markets Healthcare through Private Provision Walton, Tom Matthees, Kevin HEALTH SERVICES HEALTHCARE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS PRIVATE HEALTHCARE HEALTH EXPENDITURE NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASE HIV AIDS HEALTH INSURANCE HEALTHCARE DELIVERY REGULATION COMPETITION CONSUMER CHOICE INNOVATION The role of private enterprise in healthcare is to complement and support improvements to public healthcare, not to supplant it. Private providers are the primary source of care for the world’s poorest people and their record is often as good as or better than that of public providers. As low and middle-income economies grow and resources become more widely available, competition and consumer choice offer substantial potential to improve the reach, quality, and efficiency of both private and public provision. 2018-09-06T16:16:50Z 2018-09-06T16:16:50Z 2017-02 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/968991486541026375/Improving-emerging-markets-healthcare-through-private-provision http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30358 English EMCompass,no. 31; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo International Finance Corporation International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief
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topic HEALTH SERVICES
HEALTHCARE
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES
HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
PRIVATE HEALTHCARE
HEALTH EXPENDITURE
NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASE
HIV AIDS
HEALTH INSURANCE
HEALTHCARE DELIVERY
REGULATION
COMPETITION
CONSUMER CHOICE
INNOVATION
spellingShingle HEALTH SERVICES
HEALTHCARE
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES
HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
PRIVATE HEALTHCARE
HEALTH EXPENDITURE
NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASE
HIV AIDS
HEALTH INSURANCE
HEALTHCARE DELIVERY
REGULATION
COMPETITION
CONSUMER CHOICE
INNOVATION
Walton, Tom
Matthees, Kevin
Improving Emerging Markets Healthcare through Private Provision
relation EMCompass,no. 31;
description The role of private enterprise in healthcare is to complement and support improvements to public healthcare, not to supplant it. Private providers are the primary source of care for the world’s poorest people and their record is often as good as or better than that of public providers. As low and middle-income economies grow and resources become more widely available, competition and consumer choice offer substantial potential to improve the reach, quality, and efficiency of both private and public provision.
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author Walton, Tom
Matthees, Kevin
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Matthees, Kevin
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title Improving Emerging Markets Healthcare through Private Provision
title_short Improving Emerging Markets Healthcare through Private Provision
title_full Improving Emerging Markets Healthcare through Private Provision
title_fullStr Improving Emerging Markets Healthcare through Private Provision
title_full_unstemmed Improving Emerging Markets Healthcare through Private Provision
title_sort improving emerging markets healthcare through private provision
publisher International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC
publishDate 2018
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/968991486541026375/Improving-emerging-markets-healthcare-through-private-provision
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