… referrals, and case management, is needed. However, very few studies have examined …
informal providers interact with formal healthcare providers, or how informal and formal providers …

… informal sector in national health systems is not an option. This paper aims to discuss the
role of informal health care providers in achieving universal health … cases to the formal health …

… coordinating exchange through the market are greater than within … health committees
sometimes seek to limit informal providers in a … This is the case in the health care markets within …

… that our people are patronizing the informal providers. The government can help by making
… to submit their monthly data, and some informal providers do not refer clients till the case is …

… -related information, and even participating in the co-regulation of pharmaceutical and
healthcare markets. … Additionally, there are cases where providers are linked to both formal and …

… While our results are based on one case study, they do call into question, especially for
middle-income countries, a simple reliance on transitioning to the formal economy as way to …

… all cases that informal providers may be required to manage. … the population level rather
than among those informal providers … make use of the fact that, out of the 360 informal providers …

… access to providers affects health outcomes. Relative to this literature, we study how restrictions
in access to informal providers — in this case informal birth attendants — affects health …

… The general case of this chapter is the three East African countries of Kenya, Tanzania and
… health service provider is often the informal health industry; and therefore if health makes an …

… single supplier for … are not appropriate for the informal work force or the informal economy.
The regulations governing occupational health and safety, the topic of this volume, are a case …