Working with private sector providers for better health care. An introductory guide.

Abstract

This guide aims to provide a practical but critical approach to developing strategies for working with private sector providers (PSPs) for better health care. Focus is on the encounter of individual people especially poor people with individual private health providers and the factors that determine the health and financial outcome of that interaction. Furthermore the guide highlights how to work with the private sector to achieve key health objectives. These objectives include increasing coverage of information products and services provided by PSPs especially for health care priorities; improving the quality of care that PSPs provide; and controlling excessive health care costs. The guide approaches its task in the belief that PSP behavior is influenced by the interplay of policymakers who set policy enact legislation enforce regulations and purchase care for their populations; people who do or do not buy products and services from PSPs; and the providers themselves who bring their experience skills and motivations to their encounter with clients. Moreover 13 strategies grouped under coverage quality and cost objectives with a policy-maker provider or people focus are extensively examined and summarized.

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