Most countries have pluralistic health systems, where a mix of public and private providers deliver health related goods and services. An important challenge in governing mixed health systems relates to the diversity of characteristics and interests of stakeholders involved. Health systems include a large variety of entities, from public to small not-for-profit providers to large multinational private for-profit companies. Entities respond in very different ways to governments efforts to steer public policy for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and require a variety of tools and incentives. An inclusive health policy therefore should set out the rationale for private sector engagement and respective roles for the different types of private sector entities, including the means through which this will be achieved. The Country Connector aims at developing technical resources on the development and implementation of national health policies that are inclusive of the different parts of the private sector in health...
This brief provides an operational definition of the private sector in health service delivery.
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)
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
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 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 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 article underlines that ignoring the role of the private sector in national efforts towards UHC is not an option, and suggest an approach to managing, and where appropriate, engaging the private sector as part of efforts to
The WHO’s Health Systems Governance Unit together with the WHO region for Africa and the WHO region for the Eastern Mediterranean undertook a joint landscaping to better understand current approaches to engage with the private
Health systems embody people, institutions, and resources arranged together following policies established by a government to improve the health of the population it serves1. Within the health sector, arrangements are intended to
Over the last five years most African countries have integrated universal health coverage (UHC) as a goal in their national health strategies. Yet, progress in translating this commitment into equitable and quality health services
The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and specifically SDG 17, call for cooperation, collaboration and partnership between government, civil society and businesses to reach the agenda’s goals. In the health sector, this
As part of “how-to” develop inclusive national health policy for the private sector in health, we reviewed how countries, particularly those classified as lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs), include the private sector in
