Private sector, for-profit health providers in low and middle income countries: Can they reach the poor at scale?

Globalization and Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Tung, Elizabeth ^a   Bennett, Sara ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Health market; Private for profit; Quality of care; Scale

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICES; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIVATE SECTOR; MARKETING; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; ASIA; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; SOCIAL STATUS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; INDIA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; STANDARDS; CONSUMER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EYE CARE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MARKETING; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; PRIVATE FOR PROFIT; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROFIT; SOUTH ASIA;

SOUTH ASIA;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INDIA; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES; POVERTY; PRIVATE SECTOR; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84904095847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-10-52     Document Type: Article

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