Volume 84, Number 11, November 2006, 841-920

Public-private partnerships for hospitals; Community health insurance in Burkina Faso; Regulating contracting in Chad, Madagascar and Senegal; Interview: contracting and health; Countries test new ways to finance health care; Public health classic: Rousseau's Social Contract

• In this month's Bulletin
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Use of contracting in public health
- David Evans

• Contracting editorial [HTML]
• doi:10.2471/BLT.06.037416
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The determinants of policy effectiveness
- Christopher C Potter & Jennifer Harries

• Policy effectiveness editorial [HTML]
• doi:10.2471/BLT.06.036251
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News

Countries test new ways to finance health care; Pakistan, Afghanistan look to women to improve health care; Maternal health care wins district vote in Uganda

• Financing health care story [HTML]
• Women improving health care story [HTML]
• Maternal health in Uganda story [HTML]
• Full Text
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WHO News

Interview: Contracting and health; Recent news from WHO

• David Evans interview [HTML]
• Full Text
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Community health insurance in Burkina Faso
- Manuela De Allegri et al.

• Abstract [HTML]
• doi:10.2471/BLT.06.031336
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Different approaches to contracting in health systems
- Jean Perrot

• Abstract [HTML]
• doi:10.2471/BLT.06.034314
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Outsourcing health services in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region
- Sameen Siddiqi, Tayyeb Imran Masud, & Belgacem Sabri

• Abstract [HTML]
• doi:10.2471/BLT.06.033027
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Private providers in tuberculosis control
- Knut Lönnroth, Mukund Uplekar, & Léopold Blanc

• Abstract [HTML]
• doi:10.2471/BLT.06.029983
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Performance-based financing: Rwanda
- Robert Soeters, Christian Habineza, & Peter Bob Peerenboom

• Abstract [HTML]
• doi:10.2471/BLT.06.029991
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Privately financed hospitals
- Martin McKee, Nigel Edwards, & Rifat Atun

• Abstract [HTML]
• doi:10.2471/BLT.06.030015
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Regulating contracting practices
- Abatcha Kadaï et al.

• Abstract [HTML]
• doi:10.2471/BLT.06.030056
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Maternal mortality
- Diana Gil-González, Mercedes Carrasco-Portiño, & Maria Teresa Ruiz

• Abstract [HTML]
• doi:10.2471/BLT.05.029454
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Is contracting a form of privatization?
- Jean Perrot
Commentaries: Jacky Matthonat, Viroj Tangcharoensathien

• Abstract [HTML]
• doi:10.2471/BLT.06.032342
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Health impact assessment and health promotion
- Robert Bos

• doi:10.2471/BLT.06.030965
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Du Contrat social
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Commentary: Rousseau’s “social contract”: contracting ahead of its time?
- Guy Carrin

• doi:10.2471/BLT.06.034389
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Health care patents and the interests of patients
- Rita Luthra

• Full Text
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Reaching the poor: a way forward in reducing health inequalities
- Sharon Friel

• Full Text
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