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Two-tier charging in Maputo Central Hospital: costs, revenues and effects on equity of access to hospital services.

  • Autores: Hongoro C, McPake B, Russo G
  • Journal: BMC Health Services Research
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Two-tier+charging+in+Maputo+Central+Hospital%3A+Costs%2C+revenues+and+effects+on+equity+of+access+to+hospital+services

BACKGROUND:
Special services within public hospitals are becoming increasingly common in low and middle income countries with the stated objective of providing higher comfort services to affluent customers and generating resources for under funded hospitals.
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Implications of dual practice for universal health coverage [Conséquences de la double pratique sur la couverture sanitaire universelle]

  • Autores: Campbell J, Hipgrave D, Horta K, McPake B, Russo G
  • Ano de Publicação: 2016
  • Journal: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26908963

Making progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) requires that health workers are adequate in numbers, prepared for their jobs and motivated to perform. In establishing the best ways to develop the health workforce, relatively little attention has been paid to the trends and implications of dual practice – concurrent employment in public and private sectors. We review recent research on dual practice for its potential to guide staffing policies in relation to UHC.
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Negotiating Markets for Health: An Exploration of Physicians’ Engagement in Dual Practice in Three African Capital Cities

  • Autores: Ferrinho P, Fronteira I, McPake B, Russo G
  • Ano de Publicação: 2014
  • Journal: Health Policy and Planning
  • Link: http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/09/26/heapol.czt071

Scarce evidence exists on the features, determinants and implications of physicians’ dual practice, especially in resource-poor settings. This study considered dual practice patterns in three African cities and the respective markets for physician services, with the objective of understanding the influence of local determinants on the practice.
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How do dual practitioners divide their time? The cases of three african capital cities

  • Autores: McPake B, Russo G, Tseng FM
  • Ano de Publicação: 2014
  • Journal: Social Science & Medicine
  • Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953614006935

Health professionals dual practice has received increasing attention, particularly in the context of the universal health coverage movement. This paper explores the determinants of doctors’ choices to become a dual practitioner and of dual practitioners’ choices to allocate time to the private sector in the capital cities of Mozambique, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde.
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