Improving the quality of private sector delivery of public health services: Challenges and strategies

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 107-120

  Brugha, Ruairí ^a,b   Zwi, Anthony ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALARIA; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOUTH AMERICA; TUBERCULOSIS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INVESTMENTS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PRIVATE SECTOR; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0031747601     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/13.2.107     Document Type: Article

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