Open AccessHealth resources in a 200,000 urban Indian population argues the need for a policy on private sector health services
Author(s) -
Kheya Melo Furtado,
Anita Kar
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/0970-0218.132727
Subject(s) - private sector , public sector , business , health care , public health , population , hrhis , health policy , environmental health , medicine , economic growth , nursing , economics , economy
There are limited primary data on the number of urban health care providers in private practice in developing countries like India. These data are needed to construct and test models that measure the efficacy of public stewardship of private sector health services.