Programme publications

Programme reports

2009

The role of the private sector in health. Symposium report. Pre congress symposium. The world congress of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA). Beijing 11 July 2009. Report prepared by Frida Hansdotter, Birger Forsberg and Jesper Sundewall. [PDF format 1,5 Mb]

2008

Birger Forsberg, Jesper Sundewall, Peter Berman and Yuanli Liu. PSP programme report 2002-2008. June 2008. [PDF format 602 Kb]
Long, Thien et.al. Situation, roles and potentials of private health providers in people's health care. Vietnam PSP report. 2008. [PDF format 1763 Kb]

2006

Jesper Sundewall and Birger Forsberg. "The private sector in health care delivery - potentials and challenges" (conference report). October 2006. [PDF format, 1653 Kb]
Joseph Konde-Lule, Sam Okuonzi, Charles Matsiko, David Mukanga, Virgil Onama and Sheba Nakacubo Gitta. The potential of the private sector to improve health outcomes in Uganda, 2006. [PDF format, 350 Kb]

2005

Jesper Sundewall, Yuanli Liu and Birger Carl Forsberg. PSP annual report, 2005. [PDF format, 423 Kb]
Birger Forsberg. Private Sector Programme (PSP). January-April 2005. [PDF format, 98 Kb]

2004

Jesper Sundewall, Peter Berman and Birger Carl Forsberg. Working with the private sector to improve health - from theory to evidence and implementation (conference report). May 2004. [PDF format, 880 Kb]

2001

Paolo Belli, Knut Lönnroth, Birger Forsberg, Peter Berman. The role of non-governental health care: a study of its scope and potential with a focus on policies to promote its contribution to improved health. Framework and generic protocol for phase 1. Stockholm 2001. [PDF format, 128 Kb]

PSP publications

2006

Wake W, Mwkisa C, Sundewall J, Forsberg B. A pilot survey of private health care providers in Lusaka District. Published in Cheelo C, Ndulo M, Ödegaard K (Eds) Policy Lessons and Emerging Challenges in the Zambian Health Sector 2000-2005. Lund: The Swedish Institute for Health Economics, 2006.

2005

Liu Y, Berman P, Yip W, Liang H, Meng Q, Qu J, Li Z. Health care in China: the role of non-government providers. Health policy 2005 August 19

2004

Deshpande, K., RaviShankar, et al. (2004). "Spatial pattern of private health care provision in Ujjain, India: a provider survey processed and analysed with a Geographical Information System." Health Policy 68(2): 211-22.

Publications by PSP collaborators

China

Meng Q., Rehnberg C., Zhuang N., Bian Y., Tomson G., Tang S. The impact of urban health insurance reform on hospital charges: a case study from two cities in China. Health Policy. 2004 May; 68(2): 197-209.
Meng Q., Shi G., Yang H., Gonzalez-Block M., Blas E. Health policy and systems research in China. Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) 2004

Lao PDR

Lamphone Syhakhang, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Björn Lindgren and Göran Tomson. The quality of drugs in private pharmacies in Lao PDR: a repeat study in 1997 and 1999. Pharm World Sci 2004; 26: 333-338.

Uganda

Youssef Tawfik, Jesca Nsungwa-Sabitii, George Greer, Joseph Owor, Rosette Kesande and Suzanne Prysor-Jones. Negotiating improved case management of childhood illness with formal and informal private practitioners in Uganda. Tropical Medicine and International Health 2006; 11(6); 967-973.

Vietnam

J. Chalker, N.T.K. Chuc, T. Falkenberg and G. Tomson. Private pharmacies in Hanoi, Vietnam: a randomized trial of a 2-year multi-component intervention on knowledge and stated practice regarding ARI, STD and antibiotic/steroid requests. Tropical Medicine and International Health. Volume 7 No 9 pp. 803-810, Sept. 2002.
Chuc NT, Larsson M, Do NT, Diwan VK, Tomson GB, Falkenberg T. Improving private pharmacy practice: a multi-intervention experiment in Hanoi, Vietnam. J Clin Epidemiol. 2002 Nov; 55(11):1148-55.
Chalker J, Chuc NT, Falkbenberg T, Do NT, Tomson G. STD management by private pharmacies in Hanoi: practice and knowledge of drug sellers. Sex Transm Infect. 2000 Aug;76(4):299-302.