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Both public and private providers deliver health services, each with their partic- ular virtues and liabilities. While private healthcare predates public provision, many governments across the world have undertaken some or even all of the responsibility for financing and delivering health services, either at subsidized rates or free of cost at the point of utilization. Given systemic deficiencies in government health programmes as well as the spiralling costs of an expensive, inequitable, and often unregulated private sector, the concept of public-private partnerships (PPPs) has emerged as a policy option in which the healthcare needs of people could be met more effectively if both sectors worked together.
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Raman, A.V., Björkman, J.W. (2015). Public-Private Partnerships in Healthcare. In: Kuhlmann, E., Blank, R.H., Bourgeault, I.L., Wendt, C. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137384935_23
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