title: Privatization--a balancing act.
abstract: The author examines the potential advantages and drawbacks of privatization and shows how governments are obliged to continue playing a major part in the health sector so that equity and other social goals are not abandoned.
authors.affiliation: International Health Division, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, England.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Muschell
mesh_terms: D003284:Contract Services; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D003906:Developing Countries; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007449:Investments / Q000191:economics; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics; D011332:Privatization / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011787:Quality of Health Care