Comparative Advantages of Public and Private Health Care Providers in Bangladesh : Bangladesh Development Series - Paper no. 4 Book

Contents: Acknowledgements. Foreword. Executive summary. Introduction. 1. Public-private partnership in the HNP sector. i. The public-private mix in the Bangladeshi health system. ii. Review of international literature. iii. Theoretical considerations for involving the private sector in the public health system. iv. Empirical evidence on relative performance on the public and the private sector in delivering health care services. v. Empirical evidence on relative performance of the private not-for-profit and for-profit sectors in delivering health care services. vi. Previous evidence on the relative performance on the public and private health sectors in Bangladesh. 2. Methodology and data. i. Evaluation dimensions. ii. Sampling of public, private-for-profit and private not-for-profit facilities. 3. Assessing the performance of public and private providers: quality, price, accessibility, cost and value. i. Multidimensional view of performance. ii. Quality performance. iii. Price. iv. Accessibility. v. Cost. vi. Value. 4. Conclusions and policy recommendations. i. Facility management. ii. Policy recommendations. References.