To contract or not to contract? Issues for low and middle income countries

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 32-40

  Mills, Anne ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CLEANING; CONTRACT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL; INDIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOUTH AFRICA; THAILAND; ZIMBABWE;

CONTRACT SERVICES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INDIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PRIVATIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; SOUTH AFRICA; THAILAND; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0031890962     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/13.1.32     Document Type: Article

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