Understanding the inequality impacts of health PPPs in Middle-Income Countries

Acronym

P_HPPP-INEQ

Consortium Coordinator

Gianella Malca, Camila

Start Date

March 6, 2023

End Date

March 5, 2024

Status

https://purl.org/pe-repo/concytec/estadoProyecto#concluido

Tipo de proyecto

EVENTO

Description

As countries strive to fulfil the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, the push for universal health coverage (UHC) has become a central feature of global health policy. One element has been a reiteration of the role of the private sector through a diverse range of financing mechanisms including Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). However, this poses significant challenges for governments because research indicates adverse outcomes for the right to health as a consequence of healthcare privatisation. The emphasis on commercial imperatives within PPPs has been shown to undermine the right to health, for example by using up public funds and exacerbating inequalities when PPP hospitals are located in urban centres and rural areas remain underserved. PPPs affect equity in different locations in different ways but development actors promoting PPPs tend use a ‘one size fits all’ PPP model. To counter this, a key feature of this network is the opportunity to unite experts from across Latin America, Africa and Asia to document and compare experiences of health sector PPPs across Middle Income Countries. Building on this collaboration, the network will construct a comparative research agenda, using four workshops to refine the knowledge gaps to be addressed. Work includes identifying the full range of ways in which PPPs affect heath equality in the countries represented, learning from existing experiences of using human rights-based approaches to PPPs and moving

Keywords

Alianzas público-privadas en salud

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Desigualdad sanitaria

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Países de ingresos medios

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Política de salud

Área de conocimiento

Social sciences

Campo OCDE

https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.06.02