Introduction: Comments on the Public/Private Sector Mix in Healthcare
1- United States: The Dominance of Public funding for Private Provision in the
U.S. Healthcare System
2- Canada: Public and Private Interfaces in Canadian Healthcare: Health Equity and Quality
of Healthcare Services Implications
3- Australia: Australia's Health Insurance System and Its Two-Level Hospital system ---
a Result of Muddled and Contested Objectives
4- France: The Public/Private Sector Mix in France: Implications and Current Debates
5- Sweden: Sweden's Public/Private Sector Mix in the Financing and Delivery of Healthcare
Services: How it Relates to Health Equity and Quality of Healthcare Services
6- The Netherlands: The Changing Private Sector Role in the Netherlands' Public/Private Sector Healthcare System: Some considerations of Health Equity and Quality of Care
7- Italy: The Public/Private Sector Mix in the Italian Healthcare System: Some Issues of Equity
and Quality of Care
8- Chile and Mexico: Healthcare Commodification, Equity and Quality in Chile and Mexico
9- Uruguay: Examining Improvement of Mixed Healthcare Services: Equity and Quality of Healthcare Services in Uruguay
10- Brazil: Public/Private Mix In Healthcare --- Inequities and Issues of Quality of Care:
The Case of Brazil
11- Russia: The Public/Private Mix in Healthcare in Russia: Some Impacts on Health Equity and Quality if Healthcare Services
12- Taiwan: Achievements and Challenges in a Single Payer System

The Public/Private Sector Mix in Healthcare Delivery

A Comparative Study