Research

This is a guide to conducting private health sector assessments in developing countries.

This guide provides a synthesis of the institutional environment needed for countries to shift to strategic purchasing, organizational incentives that need to be in place, and management capacity that needs to be strengthened.

SafeCare standards are divided into 13 different categories, covering full range medical to non-medical aspects of care and ranging from small health shops to large district hospitals.

This document identifies and frames the policy challenges that low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are facing in enabling the domestic private health sector to support the national response to COVID-19.

This market shaping primer identifies noteworthy achievements across products and markets. It is intended as a starting point for ideas that can be further developed and applied.

This note outlines options for private sector engagement to support the COVID-19 containment phase as part of a low- and middle-income pandemic response.

This primer endorses the importance of market segmentation to overall market growth. The primer serves the following purposes: (1) introduce the purpose, theory, process, and approaches for segmenting markets to increase family

This report considers the barriers and enablers of the implementation, adoption and effectiveness of diagnostics.

This information note explores how trade policy can play its part in ensuring the rapid roll-out of vaccine against COVID-19.

This WHO Guidance Note on Engagement of private/non-governmental health providers in immunization service delivery highlights areas for potential collaboration and action to enhance equity, quality and scope of vaccination

This knowledge brief provides practical guidance to address some of these challenges and to reduce the risks of collaboration with an unfamiliar partner.

The report provides an overview of the context, rationale, and role of the private sector in primary health care delivery, particularly as primary health care is evolving and repositioning in the new health care ecology. It

This is the Strategy recommended WHO's Advisory Group on the Governance of the Private Sector for UHC for WHO's work on a new way of doing business for health system governance.

This is a collection of studies on engaging the private sector in heath commissioned by WHO to support its Strategy Report.

This document focuses on the first component of primary health care and provides an overview of the role of the private sector in health systems in terms of providing goods and health services, particularly in primary care