What would it cost to scale-up private sector engagement efforts for tuberculosis care? Evidence from three pilot programs in India.
<h4>Background</h4>Private providers dominate health care in India and provide most tuberculosis (TB) care. Yet efforts to engage private providers were viewed as unsustainably expensive. Three private provider engagement pilots were implemented in Patna, Mumbai and Mehsana in 2014 based...
Main Authors: | Sarang Deo, Pankaj Jindal, Devesh Gupta, Sunil Khaparde, Kiran Rade, Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva, Bhavin Vadera, Daksha Shah, Kamlesh Patel, Paresh Dave, Rishabh Chopra, Nita Jha, Sirisha Papineni, Shibu Vijayan, Puneet Dewan |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214928 |
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