Tuesday, August 3, 2010

[EQ] Public-private partnerships for public health

Public-private partnerships for public health

Edited by Michael R. Reich.

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

 ISBN 0-674-00865-0 (paperback) Cambridge, Massachusetts USA

Available online PDF [218p.] at:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/michael-reich/files/Partnerships_book.PDF

 

".......Global health problems require global solutions, and public-private partnerships are increasingly called upon to provide these solutions. Such partnerships involve private corporations in collaboration with governments, international agencies, and non-governmental organizations. They can be very productive, but they also bring their own problems. This volume examines the organizational and ethical challenges of partnerships and suggests ways to address them.

 

How do organizations with different values, interests, and worldviews come together to resolve critical public health issues?
How are shared objectives and shared values created within a partnership?
How are relationships of trust fostered and sustained in the face of the inevitable conflicts, uncertainties, and risks of partnership?
This book focuses on public-private partnerships that seek to expand the use of specific products to improve health conditions in poor countries. The volume includes case studies of partnerships involving specific diseases such as trachoma and river blindness, international organizations such as the World Health Organization, multinational pharmaceutical companies, and products such as medicines and vaccines. Individual chapters draw lessons from successful partnerships as well as troubled ones in order to help guide efforts to reduce global health disparities......."



Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1  Introduction: Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health Michael R. Reich

CHAPTER 2  Public-Private Partnerships: Illustrative Examples Adetokunbo O. Lucas

CHAPTER 3  Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International - Trachoma Initiative - Diana Barrett, James Austin, and Sheila McCarthy

CHAPTER 4  The Ethics of Public-Private Partnerships Marc J. Roberts, A.G. Breitenstein, and Clement S. Roberts

CHAPTER 5  A Partnership for Ivermectin: Social Worlds and Boudary Objects - Laura Frost, Michael R. Reich, and Tomoko Fujisaki

CHAPTER 6  The Last Years of the CVI and the Birth of the GAVI William Muraskin

CHAPTER 7  The World Health Organization and Global Public-Private Health Partnerships: In Search of “Good” Global Governance Kent Buse and Gill Walt

 

Seven habits of highly effective global public–private health partnerships: Practice and potential

Kent Buse, a,  and Andrew M. Harmer

A Overseas Development Institute, London, UK

Social Science & Medicine - Volume 64, Issue 2, January 2007, Pages 259-271

 

Abstract: http://tinyurl.com/2put3f

Article Outline

Introduction

GHPs: the value added to international health

Seven unhealthy habits

Unhealthy habit 1: GHP alignment: ‘out of sync’

Unhealthy habit 2: GHPs are not representative of their stakeholders

Unhealthy habit 3: poor governance

Unhealthy habit 4: vilification of the public sector

Unhealthy habit 5: inadequate finance

Unhealthy habit 6: poor harmonization

Unhealthy habit 7: inadequate incentives to partner facing staff

Conclusions: seven habits of highly effective partnerships


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