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Improving the Efficiency of Public Sector Health Services in Developing Countries: Bureaucratic versus Market Approaches

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Given the substantial public finance that exists for health care in many developing countries, whether this is most efficiently employed in financing a public health bureaucracy, or whether there are arguments in favour of a pro-competition strategy? The main concern of the paper is with how to improve efficiency, though equity concerns are not completely ignored. In terms of efficiency, the concern is as much with how to use existing resources to greater effect as with simple cost savings. [HEFP working paper 01/95]

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  • Anne Mills, 2009. "Improving the Efficiency of Public Sector Health Services in Developing Countries: Bureaucratic versus Market Approaches," Working Papers id:2224, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:2224
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    public finance; health care; public health; bureaucracy; savings; technical efficiency; developing countries; income; wealth; inheritance; hospitals;
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