Is Private Health Care The Answer To The Health Problems Of The World’s Poor?

A provocative debate in this week’s PLoS Medicine examines whether the private sector should step up its involvement in delivering health care in low-income countries. These countries suffer a disproportionate burden of disease, and often struggle 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.

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Filed under: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance on November 27th, 2008