Title: Buying results? : contracting for health service delivery in developing countries

Authors: Loevinsohn, Benjamin and Harding, April

Year: 2005

Journal: The lancet

Volume: (2005)9486

PAGE: 676--681

Subject: Health and Poverty

Keywords: primary health care, health care delivery, contracts, developing countries, poverty, cambodia, bangladesh, bolivia, guatemala, haiti, india, madagascar, senegal, pakistan

Abstract: In this article the ten investigated examples indicate that contracting for the delivery of primary care can be very effective and that improvements can be rapid. Provision of a package of basic services by contractors costs between roughly US$3 and US$6 per head per year in low-income countries.

URL: https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/archive/doc/ghprn/Lancet_harding.pdf

Document type: E-article