posted Apr 23, 2015, 7:23 AM by Karine Gatellier
David
Bishai and Karampreet Sachathep
There
is a growing appreciation and recognition of the role of the private sector
in the development of better health systems and the improvement of healthcare
worldwide. We are witnessing a large increase in research dedicated to this
topic and thus in July 2013, we brought together experts, healthcare providers
and researchers from around the world for a symposium in Sydney to discuss
and share findings and research on this very topic. The symposium was
generously supported by Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation, USAID,
AusAID, and DFID.
There
were three pervasive themes which were represented at the Symposium; access,
quality and governance. Access papers ranged from evaluations of private
insurance programmes targeted at the poor in Georgia, to an assessment of the
condom market in Myanmar, to the private sector’s role in tertiary care
delivery in India.
The
paper by Gotsadze et al. involves an impact evaluation of private
health Insurance for the …
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