| Title |
A case study of outsourced primary healthcare services in Sindh, Pakistan: is this a real reform?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, June 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-14-277 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sana Tanzil, Aysha Zahidie, Adeel Ahsan, Ambreen Kazi, Babar Tasneem Shaikh |
| Abstract |
Since a decade, low and middle income countries have a rising trend of contracting their primary healthcare services to NGOs. In Pakistan, public sector often lacks capacity to effectively & equitably manage the healthcare services. It led the government to outsource the administration of primary health care services to a semi-autonomous government entity i.e. Peoples' Primary Healthcare Initiative (PPHI). This small scale study has assessed the quality of healthcare services at the contracted Basic Health Units (BHUs) with the PPHI and compared it with those managed by the local district government in the province of Sindh. |
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| Student > Master | 19 | 21% |
| Researcher | 9 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 9% |
| Librarian | 7 | 8% |
| Other | 7 | 8% |
| Other | 17 | 18% |
| Unknown | 25 | 27% |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 19 | 21% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 9% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 7 | 8% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 13 | 14% |
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