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Entries from April 2008

Public-private investment partnerships in health systems

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

I posted this one to THDblog as well.
Richard Smith at the BMJ Blog wrote about last week’s Private Sector Health Systems conference [program PDF] in Wilton Park. The full text is at the BMJ, but here’s my summary. In many developing countries, the poor are much more likely to use private providers than public [...]

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Tags: Conferences

University of Bristol Social Medicine Seminar: Competitive Voucher Schemes in Healthcare

April 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Anna Gorter is giving a talk next Thursday at the University of Bristol about vouchers in health. The synopsis follows here:
Competitive voucher schemes are one of many demand-side financing approaches to health care, which links public funding to delivery of basic health services. The schemes have the potential to target specific segments of the [...]

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Tags: Implementation