Private sector landscape in mixed health systems

Résumé du livre

In 2019, the World Health Organization set up an advisory group on the Governance of the Private Sector for Universal Health Coverage. The group was formed with the primary goal of providing advice and recommendations on the regulation and engagement of the private sector in the context of WHO GPW goal of 1 billion more people benefiting from Universal Health Coverage, and in particular outcome 1.1.4, "Countries enabled to ensure effective health governance". In late 2020, the advisory group finished a new strategy designed to help WHO facilitate a new way of governing mixed health systems by building consensus around the means and strategies of engaging the private health sector in health care service delivery. This new strategy focuses on the governance of the whole health system - both private and public - to ensure that all people have access to quality health care without suffering financial hardship, irrespective of where they seek care. The eight studies in this volume were commissioned by WHO to help the advisory group to complete its work on the new strategy. Each of these studies also contributes valuable information to broader discussions about the role of the private sector in health care and the growing momentum to using cross-sector partnerships to achieve the health-related SDGs.