Private Healthcare and Privatization
One important area of health systems studies and practice is in dealing with private health care, privatization , and forms of engagement with the private sector and regulation of the private sector. Regulation is linked to the governance thematic.
Here we begin by the peoples health movement publication of year 2000 called : “Against commercialization of health care.”
Then we present an update on that theme as prepared for the National Health Assembly year in 2018. This publication is titled “Public Private Partnerships”
We then share a paper, published as a chapter in a book, that describes the experience with public private partnerships in India.
We also share the abstract of a paper presented in a conference in 2012: “Business models of public private partnerships in publicly-financed emergency response services” (T Sundararaman Arun Nair Tushar Mokashi Gautam Chakraborthy et al.)
The last selection is a very different piece of work. This is a “Charter for Practicing Responsible Healthcare-Working Document” This was prepared as working document for October Summit 2016 of Responsible Health Care Providers organized by Aravind Eye Hospitals, Madurai. This has participation exclusively from private sector hospitals who were trying to build a constituency of ethical non-commercially driven private health care providers. There are many other such associations and initiatives- small and few but nevertheless very significant.