Cross-cutting programme areas such as health financing, workforce, and governance. Supporting inclusive, resilient health systems with public–private partnerships.
This brief provides an operational definition of the private sector in health service delivery.
This document provides comparative synthesis of country experience on private sector engagement as part of the COVID-19 response in the Eastern Mediterranean region (EMR), with a specific focus on health service delivery The
A brief about WHO's progression model for the governance of mixed health systems
Private Sector Engagement for Tuberculosis Elimination : India’s Journey from Pilots to National Scale-Up (2012-2021)
A comprehensive overview of early-pandemic engagement with the private sector guidance, country case studies, and more
To inform WHO’s Strategy Report on engaging the private health service delivery sector through governance in mixed health systems, Barbara O’Hanlon & Dr. Mark Hellowell analyzed current global health practice in the domain of
In this brief, we introduce six governance behaviours, to foster effective public-private engagement, as part of more resilient and responsive health systems. The governance behaviours were conceptualised as part of the WHO
To support Member States, the health system governance department of WHO has created the WHO’s Private Sector Engagement COVID-19 Initiative (WHO-PCI). The WHO-PCI case study is for Member States seeking to engage the private
The WHO’s Private Sector Engagement COVID-19 Initiative (WHO-PCI) case study series is for Member States seeking to engage the private health sector in their COVID-19 response. The series seeks to promote a culture of “learning by
This Action Plan aims to create a single, unified, coherent response to the COVID-19 pandemic that integrates the public and private health sectors. The intention is to ensure that care-seekers experience no material difference in
This book draws on a wide range of country experience to provide a judicious blend of practical advice and useful information on health services privatization issues. It discusses how to assess the potential for private sector
This is a how-to guide that captures the evolution of public-private dialogue (PPD) and the challenges faced by practitioners since the first PPD handbook was published in 2006.
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.