Predicting performance in contracting of basic health care to NGOs: Experience from large-scale contracting in Uttar Pradesh, India

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 26, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Heard, Anna ^a   Awasthi, Maya Kant ^b   Ali, Jabir ^b   Shukla, Neena ^c   Forsberg, Birger C ^d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT   (India)

^c Uttar Pradesh Health Systems Development Project   (India)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

basic health care services; Contracting; contractor qualification; evaluation; India; non governmental organizations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRACT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INDIA; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CONTRACTS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; INDIA; ORGANIZATIONS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRIVATE SECTOR; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 79960346573     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czr030     Document Type: Article

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