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The Quality of Medical Care in Low-Income Countries: From Providers to Markets

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Jishnu Das provides a perspective on a research article by Paul Garner and colleagues that reports a systematic review of 80 studies comparing the quality of private versus public ambulatory health care in low and middle income countries.

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  • Jishnu Das, 2011. "The Quality of Medical Care in Low-Income Countries: From Providers to Markets," PLOS Medicine, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(4), pages 1-2, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pmed00:1000432
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000432
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    1. Veenapani Rajeev Verma & Shyamkumar Sriram & Umakant Dash, 2025. "Linking Household and Service Provisioning Assessments to Estimate a Metric of Effective Health Coverage: A Metric for Monitoring Universal Health Coverage," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 22(4), pages 1-30, April.
    2. Cammett, Melani & Şaşmaz, Aytuğ, 2017. "Political Context, Organizational Mission, and the Quality of Social Services: Insights from the Health Sector in Lebanon," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 98(C), pages 120-132.
    3. Anja Sautmann & Samuel Brown & Mark Dean, 2016. "Subsidies, Information, and the Timing of Childrenís Health Care in Mali," Working Papers 2016-2, Brown University, Department of Economics.
    4. Thomas Rouyard & Yukichi Mano & Bocar Mamadou Daff & Serigne Diouf & Khadidiatou Fall Dia & Laetitia Duval & Josselin Thuilliez & Ryota Nakamura, 2022. "Operational and Structural Factors Influencing Enrolment in Community-Based Health Insurance Schemes: An Observational Study Using 12 Waves of Nationwide Panel Data from Senegal," Post-Print halshs-03641124, HAL.
    5. Sautmann,Anja & Brown,Samuel & Kline,Dean Mark, 2020. "Subsidies, Information, and the Timing of Children’s Health Care in Mali," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9486, The World Bank.
    6. George, Asha & Iyer, Aditi, 2013. "Unfree markets: Socially embedded informal health providers in northern Karnataka, India," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 297-304.
    7. Daniels,Benjamin & Das,Jishnu & Roberta V. Gatti & Andres Yi Chang, 2025. "Caseloads and Competence in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Fundamental Reassessment of the Human Resources Crisis in Primary Health Care," Policy Research Working Paper Series 11043, The World Bank.
    8. Finn McGuire & Peter C. Smith & Nicholas Stacey & Ijeoma Edoka & Noemi Kreif, 2025. "Do health care quality improvement policies work for all? Distributional effects by baseline quality in South Africa," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 34(1), pages 175-199, January.
    9. Leonard, Kenneth L. & Hompashe, Dumisani, 2024. "Untapped human capital in Africa," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 109(C).

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