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<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br>crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="3"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Public stewardship of private providers in mixed health systems</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="3"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br></span></font></b><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Synthesis report from the Rockefeller Foundation—sponsored initiative on the role of the private sector in health systems<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Washington</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, DC</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">: Results for Development Institute. ISBN 978-0-9788790-8-2</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>Available online PDF [74p.] at: <a href="http://bit.ly/1gpmsq" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://bit.ly/1gpmsq</span></font></a></span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“……..</span></font></span><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This report summarizes the findings from research commissioned in 2008 by the Rockefeller Foundation, in collaboration with the Results for Development Institute and the Thai Ministry of Public Health’s International Health Policy Program. This research—resulting in 14 papers by various institutions, examining the role of the private sector in health systems in developing countries— draws on multiple data sources, including, a global survey of countries’ regulatory models, a scan of innovative private sector financing and delivery models, a survey of attitudes toward the private health sector, and evidence on where people receive health services. </span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Foundation sponsored this work as part of broader repositioning of its health strategy to address the emerging challenges of the 21st century. The repositioning led, in late 2008, to adoption of a new Foundation initiative on Transforming Health Systems to achieve high-quality, accessible, and affordable health coverage for all.</span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">One key theme emerging from this analysis is the importance of public stewardship of the nonstate sector (that is, the private sector, broadly defined). Effective government stewardship is crucial for achieving broader health objectives, given the reality that many countries already have large, complex markets for healthcare, presenting major challenges and significant opportunities.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A second key theme is that many governments are not performing that stewardship role particularly well at present. Policy dialogue and decisionmaking—within government and with donors— are often not well informed about the huge scale and diversity of health services that exist beyond government-run facilities. Those in the public sector who should be overseeing the entire health system—state and nonstate—are not monitoring what is happening in the nonstate sector and have imperfect understanding of the forces at work in the health system in its entirety. Nor is there adequate appreciation of the fact that private out-of-pocket payments by households account for a large proportion of total health spending.</span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Compounding these problems are severe limitations in the data available on the nonstate sector. Basic information on what kinds of services the private sector provides, to whom, and with what results is not readily at hand for policymakers</span></font></span><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">…..”</span></font></span></p>
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