'Make or buy' decisions in the production of health care goods and services: New insights from institutional economics and organizational theory

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 779-790

  Preker, Alexander S ^a   Harding, April ^a   Travis, Phyllida ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decision making; Delivery of health care; Economic; Health care; Methods; Models; Organizational; Outcome and process assessment; Private sector; Public sector

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; PRIVATE SECTOR; SERVICE PROVISION; STATE ROLE; WELFARE REFORM;

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; MODEL; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HUMANS; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES; MODELS, ECONOMIC; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POLICY MAKING; PRODUCT LINE MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0033943149     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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