Macroeconomic constraints, medical technology developments, changing
patterns of disease, demographics and rising public expectations lead us
to look further when questioning the sustainability of public health insurance.
Public-private partnerships are being increasingly encouraged as a solution
proposed by the New Public Management (NPM) in the belief that it stands
half-way between public administration and complete privatization. The need
to foster such arrangements is supported by a clear understanding of the
public sectors inability to provide public goods entirely on their own, in an
efficient, effective and equitable manner because of lack of resources and
management issues. Discussion of Public-private partnerships in the health
sector is important and timely in light of the challenges the public sector is
facing in healthcare finance, management, and provision.
This book intends to produce taxonomy of various types of Public-private
partnerships in health and to analyze its relation with health care system
performance.