The Role of the Private Sector in Health Systems

In January 2008, the Rockefeller Foundation asked the Results for Development Institute (R4D) to lead an effort to better understand the role of the private sector in health systems in developing countries. In partnership with the International Health Policy Program of the Thai Ministry of Public Health and other health policy research organizations, R4D worked to identify opportunities to strengthen public/private health systems through the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information and evidence on non-state health care providers and funders, and on public stewardship mechanisms designed to better harness these private actors.

The project was completed in January 2009 and resulted in two synthesis reports by the Results for Development Institute and 13 technical papers by various institutions:

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