title: Is private health care the answer to the health problems of the world's poor?
abstract: The global burden of disease falls disproportionately upon the world's low-income countries, which are often struggling with weak health systems. Both the public and private sector deliver health care in these countries, but the appropriate role for each of these sectors in health system strengthening remains controversial. This debate examines whether the private sector should step up its involvement in the health systems of low-income countries.
authors.affiliation: Health Economics and Financing Programme, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. kara.hanson@lshtm.ac.uk
authors.forename: Kara
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hanson
authors.forename: Lucy
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gilson
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Goodman
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mills
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Feachem
authors.forename: Neelam Sekhri
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Feachem
authors.forename: Tracey Perez
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Koehlmoos
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kinlaw
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries / Q000191:economics*; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D011203:Poverty; D017149:Private Sector / Q000191:economics*; D017150:Public Sector / Q000191:economics