Title: Innovations in Health Service Delivery : The Corporatization of Public Hospitals

Language: English

Type: Document

Nature: Guidelines

Published: January 1, 2003


Region: Global

Country: Global / Non-Specific

Sector: Water and Sanitation

Keywords: PPPs by Sector *, Water & Sanitation PPPs **, Corporatization, Financing, Health, PPP Project Cycle

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Document Summary:

Hospital care is the largest expenditure category in the health systems of both industrialized and developing countries. Although hospitals play a critical role in ensuring delivery of health services, less is known about how to improve the efficiency and quality of care provided.


Document Details:

This book, a well-documented collection of case studies, is an attempt to examine the design, implementation and impact of reforms that introduced market forces in the public hospital sector; and tries to answer three questions: a) what problems did this type of reform try to address; b) what are the core elements of their design, implementation, and evaluation; and c) is there any evidence that this type of reform is successful in addressing problems for which they were intended?