Innovative Pro-Poor Healthcare Financing and Delivery Models

Abstract

In their efforts to improve health systems, developing countries face the challenge of integrating traditional government health resources with a large and growing private health sector, where many poor people seek care. In these ?mixed health systems? centrally planned systems operated by government entities exist side-by-side with private markets for similar or complementary products and services. However, most developing country ministries of health and the donors and technical experts that support them have not fully engaged the private health sector in harnessing innovation or mitigating market failures.