OBJECTIVES To determine: (i) the national status of newborn hearing screening services in the private health care sector of South Africa; (ii) screening approaches implemented; and (iii) challenges to screening implementation. DESIGN A descriptive national survey in the private sector of South Africa was conducted within a quantitative paradigm. METHOD All private health sector institutions...

In Bosnia and Herzegovina citizens receive health care from both public and private providers. The current situation calls for a clear government policy and strategy to ensure better position and services from both parts. This article examines how health care services are delivered, particularly with respect to relationship between public and private providers. The paper notes that the public s...

© 2010 THE AUTHORS JOURNAL COMPILATION © 2010 CIPFA Budgetary constraints, as well as the belief that the private sector can in some circumstances be more cost-efficient than the public sector, mean that governments worldwide are using public– private partnerships (PPPs) to construct and operate infrastructure. Innovation is an important factor that can enable the private sector to provide more...

A central theme of recent health care reforms has been a redefinition of the roles of the state and private providers. With a view to helping governments to arrive at more rational "make or buy" decisions on health care goods and services, we propose a conceptual framework in which a combination of institutional economics and organizational theory is used to examine the core production activiti...

Low livestock productivity in many developing countries is commonly considered to reflect, among other factors, the inadequate supply of services to control disease. Veterinary services have traditionally been provided by the state, but public finance constraints have limited the availability and effectiveness of public services. The author explains how economic theory can be used to identify a...

Objectives: Studying the situation of providing services for people with disability are very important and in current situation which is dominate on system providing rehabilitation services in Iran, private rehabilitation centers can be the best and the most important focus for this study. Methods: This research performed by qualitative method and with phenomenology type, and purposeful samp...

Governments engage with the private sector in several ways, one of which is through contractual agreements to provide services to the population on the governments’ behalf (the process of ‘contracting out’). The importance, feasibility and effectiveness of this contracting process in the health sector is disputed, particularly in states where the government is unable to adequately deliver funda...

BACKGROUND The age of diagnosis of congenital hearing loss is one of the most important determinants of communication outcome. A previous study by the lead author had evaluated the performance of the public health services in Bloemfontein, South Africa (SA), in this regard. This study aimed to examine whether the private health services in the same city were any better. OBJECTIVE To determine...