A research protocol to evaluate the effectiveness of public-private partnerships as a means to improve health and welfare systems worldwide

Participants concurred that strategies to improve the availability of health and welfare services in developing countries should include an increased emphasis on "... partnerships among communities, civil societies, the private sector and government"1(p51) The report from this symposium re...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2007, Vol.97 (1), p.19-25
Main Author: BARR, Donald A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIDS
Biological and medical sciences
Collaboration
Conferences
Developing countries
Global health
Health care
Health services
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
LDCs
Malaria
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Pharmaceutical industry
Politics
Private schools
Private sector
Privatization
Protocol
Public health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Public private partnerships
Public sector
Success
Tuberculosis
Welfare
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Summary:Participants concurred that strategies to improve the availability of health and welfare services in developing countries should include an increased emphasis on "... partnerships among communities, civil societies, the private sector and government"1(p51) The report from this symposium recommended that WHO member states explore ways of adopting the public-private partnership model for the delivery of health and welfare services. A second force was a growing pattern of collaboration in the United States between the federal government, private universities, and private pharmaceutical companies in the development and marketing of new pharmaceutical products; a collaboration initiated by the Bayh-Doyle Act that was passed by Congress in 1980.12 The third force was the decision by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and other organizations to rely extensively on the public-private partnership model when funding efforts to address the growing worldwide crises of HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and other major diseases.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2005.075614