Macroeconomic constraints, medical technology developments, changing

patterns of disease, demographics and rising public expectations lead us

to look further when questioning the sustainability of public health insurance.

Public-private partnerships are being increasingly encouraged as a solution

proposed by the New Public Management (NPM) in the belief that it stands

half-way between public administration and complete privatization. The need

to foster such arrangements is supported by a clear understanding of the

public sectors inability to provide public goods entirely on their own, in an

efficient, effective and equitable manner because of lack of resources and

management issues. Discussion of Public-private partnerships in the health

sector is important and timely in light of the challenges the public sector is

facing in healthcare finance, management, and provision.

This book intends to produce taxonomy of various types of Public-private

partnerships in health and to analyze its relation with health care system

performance.