Public-private partnerships in sexual and reproductive healthcare provision: establishing a gender analysis

TY - JOUR

T1 - Public-private partnerships in sexual and reproductive healthcare provision

T2 - establishing a gender analysis

AU - Gideon, Jasmine

AU - Hunter, Benjamin M.

AU - Murray, Susan F.

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - The past few decades have seen the growing popularity of public- private partnerships (PPPs) across the health sector – a catch all term used to encompass diverse activities involving both public and private sector entities in areas of global and domestic health. In the article we consider the factors that have led to this proliferation of PPPs in the healthcare delivery field and consider the link to the process of ‘scientization’ of health care. With a focus on sexual and reproductive health the article also considers two commonly used mechanisms employed in SRH service delivery that have been used in PPPs – social franchise and health voucher schemes. We then reprise key points from the existing critical literature on gendered health systems and go on to consider their application to such service provision-oriented PPPs, using an exploratory analysis of a case study of the use of maternal health vouchers in India.

AB - The past few decades have seen the growing popularity of public- private partnerships (PPPs) across the health sector – a catch all term used to encompass diverse activities involving both public and private sector entities in areas of global and domestic health. In the article we consider the factors that have led to this proliferation of PPPs in the healthcare delivery field and consider the link to the process of ‘scientization’ of health care. With a focus on sexual and reproductive health the article also considers two commonly used mechanisms employed in SRH service delivery that have been used in PPPs – social franchise and health voucher schemes. We then reprise key points from the existing critical literature on gendered health systems and go on to consider their application to such service provision-oriented PPPs, using an exploratory analysis of a case study of the use of maternal health vouchers in India.

KW - Gender

KW - Public private partnerships

KW - Reproductive Health Services

KW - India

KW - vouchers

U2 - 10.1080/216997/63.2017/1329157

DO - 10.1080/216997/63.2017/1329157

M3 - Article

SN - 2169-9763

VL - 33

SP - 166

EP - 180

JO - Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy

JF - Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy

IS - 2

ER -