ABSTRACT
Public-private partnerships are contextual. As public policy, they vary in scope, coverage, objectives and form, all of which depend on the pervasiveness of the private sector in a given country, the level of a region’s economic development, political ideologies, social contexts, regulatory capacity of a regime and the quality of governance. Experience with public-private partnerships across the world has generated policy issues about enabling conditions, legal contexts, organizational and managerial structures, financing mechanisms, scope and coverage of services, constraints and bottlenecks, and the appropriateness of one form over another. This chapter reviews partnerships in across the world with specific attention to the delivery of health services.
