1st Edition

Public-Private Partnerships in Health Care in India Lessons for developing countries

256 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Public-private partnerships are increasingly advocated to alleviate deficiencies in the public health system as well as to reduce economic stress on those who seek services from an expensive, burgeoning and unregulated private health sector. Focusing on India, this book examines how the private sector in developing countries is tapped to deliver health care services to poor and under-served... Read more

1. Concepts, Theories and Models  2. Health Systems and Health Care in India  3. Public-Private Partnerships in India  4. Stakeholders in Public-Private Partnerships  5. Comparative Public-Private Partnerships  6. Observations and Policy Lessons

Biography

A. Venkat Raman is Reader in Human Resource Management and Health Services Management at the University of Delhi, India.

James Warner Björkman is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, and Professor of Public Administration and Development at Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands.