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Universal Health Coverage: Markets, Profit and the Public Good

Mon, 27 June 2016, 11:00 to 14:00

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is hosting the launch of four papers in The Lancet on the private sector in health care in low- and middle-income countries. Speakers include IKD Director Maureen Mackintosh, lead author of the first paper.

Abstract
In low- and middle-income countries there is a particularly diverse set of providers of health care: spiritual and other traditional forms of healing, unqualified but cheap and accessible drug sellers, and highly technical specialist hospitals are often simultaneously available, all operating privately and for profit. Although the not-for-profit sector is often an important actor, it is frequently dwarfed by the private sector in terms of volume of services, number of facilities, and level of finance channelled through it.

A new Lancet series, Universal Health Coverage: Markets, Profit and the Public Good, edited by Kara Hanson and Barbara McPake, discusses the implications of this scenario for the ability of low- and middle-income countries to achieve universal health coverage, and where public policy can best intervene.

Chair
Richard Horton

Speakers
Maureen Mackintosh (OU)
Tim Ensor (University of Leeds)
Catherine Goodman, (LSHTM)
Barbara McPake (University of Melbourne)

Discussants
Gerry Bloom (IDS)
Simon Wright (Save the Children)
Lizzie Smith (DfID)

The event (followed by lunch) is free, but registration is required. Find out more from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine or register for your free ticket.

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