Private health care in low-income and middle-income countries is very extensive and very
heterogeneous, ranging from itinerant medicine sellers, through millions of independent …

The private sector has a large and growing role in health systems in low-income and middle-
income countries. The goal of universal health coverage provides a renewed focus on taking …

Although the private sector is an important health-care provider in many low-income and
middle-income countries, its role in progress towards universal health coverage varies …

While the importance of the private sector in providing health services in developing
countries is now widely acknowledged, the paucity of data on numbers and types of …

The private for-profit sector's prominence in health-care delivery, and concern about its
failures to deliver social benefit, has driven a search for interventions to improve the sector's …

High up on the agenda of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is the privatisation of
education, health, welfare, social housing and transport. The WTO's aim is to extend the free …

There is debate about the role of the private sector in providing services in the health
systems of low-and middle-income countries and about how the private sector could help …

Background to the Debate The global burden of disease falls disproportionately upon the
world's low-income countries, which are often struggling with weak health systems. Both the …

Although China's 2009 health-care reform has made impressive progress in expansion of
insurance coverage, much work remains to improve its wasteful health-care delivery …

VIEWPOINT entire sector. In exchange for giving up the right to select projects according to
their own priorities, donors gain a voice (but not a controlling interest) in the process of …