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| Title |
Private sector delivery of health services in developing countries: a mixed-methods study on quality assurance in social franchises
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| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-13-4 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Karen Schlein, Anna York De La Cruz, Tisha Gopalakrishnan, Dominic Montagu |
| Abstract |
Across the developing world health care services are most often delivered in the private sector and social franchising has emerged, over the past decade, as an increasingly popular method of private sector health care delivery. Social franchising aims to strengthen business practices through economies of scale: branding clinics and purchasing drugs in bulk at wholesale prices. While quality is one of the established goals of social franchising, there is no published documentation of how quality levels might be set in the context of franchised private providers, nor what quality assurance measures can or should exist within social franchises. The aim of this study was to better understand the quality assurance systems currently utilized in social franchises, and to determine if there are shared standards for practice or quality outcomes that exist across programs. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 50% |
| Mexico | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 3 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 63% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 38% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 118 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 114 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 26 | 22% |
| Researcher | 13 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 30 | 25% |
| Unknown | 23 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 37 | 31% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 11% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 10 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 7% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 20 | 17% |
| Unknown | 24 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 February 2015.
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#6,361,677
of 23,798,792 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#2,939
of 7,917 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#66,071
of 285,875 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#44
of 126 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,798,792 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 73rd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,917 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 62% of its peers.
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