OBJECTIVE: This study reviewed the current health research and development environment in the Philippines with respect to the engagement between the public and private sectors. The overall objective was to identify the role of the private sector in health research and identify barriers and opportunities for successful public-private health research partnerships.

METHODS:  Key informant interviews were conducted using a semi-structured interview tool. Secondary data such as annual reports and project funding documents from the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development were also analyzed.

RESULTS: The roles of the private sector when engaging with the public sector for research and development were identified as generators, funders, and adopters of research. Information gathered showed that there were several institutional and practice barriers to the successful collaboration of the public and private sectors, however there were also lessons learned from the successes of cases such as the Axis-Knee System, Sambong, and Lagundi technologies.

CONCLUSION: The collaboration and partnership of the public and private sectors can be mutually beneficial. Government initiative to increase the ease of collaboration with the private sector in health research was found to be a necessary step to stimulate a productive health research environment.

Although development of the information technology, computerization, automation, industrial robots and modernization of equipments, the consideration and enhancement of the human resource always play an most important role for the company's success and development. This paper presented some problems of the human resource of the drugs quality assurance network in the pharmaceutical companies and introduced some solutions for this aspects
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Public Sector ; Private Sector

Private Sector ; Public Sector ; Social Responsibility

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Humans ; Korea* ; Private Sector* ; Tuberculosis*

This paper introduced the drug quality guarantee and quality guarantee system; Situation of drug quality guarantee system in drug manufacturing enterprise of Vietnam. Orientation and building of quality guarantee system in drug manufacturing enterprise
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Quality Control ; Public Sector ; Private Sector

The study was conducted in 28 rural communes at 7 geographical regions, with the sample size 5579 households and population of 25243 involved. The time-serial sampling household survey was carried out with 8 cross-sectional studies during a two year period (2000-2001). The findings showed that: Self-medication was the most popular choice for sick persons, there was a progressive tendency that the more poor likely to use it than the rich (39.7% & 35.6%). The next choices were private clinics and commune health stations (CHS). Utilization of hospital care was quite low (5.2% - 11.3% for out-patients and 5.4% - 6.5% for in-patients). Inequity in health care utilization was seen in out-patients services at the hospital level, whereas it was not happened in in-patient care and at the CHS. The poor even those having health insurance used hospital care as 1/2 of the richest
Utilization ; Family Characteristics ; Self Medication ; Private Sector ; Private Practice

In May 1999, an investigation was performed in Bac Ninh province – Tien Son district, addressing to 270 households (among them 263 with ill persons) in order to assess the use of health services. Results show that the services of private sector are more preferred (61.99%) than those of commune health station (23.19%) and of the state hospital (6.85%).
Delivery of Health Care ; Family Characteristics ; Private Sector

A surveillance of 360 gynecological, obstetrical and family planning survices and 422 clients of centers in private sector in 8 provinces/cities. The results: private health sector are providing 22.2% of the total servies. 77.5% of managers are standing government staffs; of them 53.6% are graduated and post-graduated persons; 39.4% are assistant doctors and midwives. 96.6% of clients are satisfied with private health services. It is estimated, 81.4% of clients would continue to use private health services
Delivery of Health Care ; Family Planning Services ; Private Sector

In this study we analyzed the insurance claims data to investigate the medical care utilization pattern of tuberculosis patients in private sector. We selected the claims of principal or secondary diagnosis with tuberculosis from claims database of National Federation of Medical Insurance, from December 1995 to November 1996. Both spell-based analysis and person-based analysis were carried out. In spell-based analysis, type and location of treatment facilities, distribution of diagnoses, number of outpatient/inpatient treatments were analyzed. Additionally in person-based analysis, number of tuberculosis patients, demographic characteristics, number of treatments per person, frequency and pattern of change in source of care were analyzed. The results were as follows 1. The number of treatments with tuberculosis was 863,641 from 1 December 1995 to 30 November 1996. The number of patients was 313.964. 2. Most of tuberculosis patients in private sector were treated in general hospital(45.8%) and clinics(42.2%) 3. About 77.7% of tuberculosis patients who were treated more than two times did not change the source of carey. 18,9% of tuberculosis patients changed source of care only once. Even when we limited tuberculosis patient to those who were treated more than five times and whose treatment period were longer than six months, 94.7% of patients did not change source of care at all, or changed treatment facility only once. 4. The probability of change in source of care was higher in pulmonary tuberculosis, in twenties, and in rural area respectively than other tuberculosis. In conclusion, healer shopping of tuberculosis patients was not serious as expected. However special attention is needed to pulmonary tuberculosis in twenties and rural area
Diagnosis ; Humans ; Insurance ; Private Sector* ; Tuberculosis* ; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary

The traditional boundaries between public and private sectors has been blurred, and questions raised regarding how publicness could be conceptualized. The empirical study on the concept of publicness can reveal greatly diversified views on publicness, and help to reduce confusion over publicness. For the content analysis, 750 news articles of 8 national Korean newspapers were retrieved from the Korea Integrated News Database System. The articles were coded by the inductive category for the topic of the paragraph, the concept related to publicness, and the overall tone toward publicness. Publicness was addressed in a number of different issues, and diverse and specific statuses or actions were associated with the realization of publicness. The most frequent concept was “government,” which represented the main agent of healthcare provision and the owner of institutions for “the vulnerable.” Issues of industrialization of healthcare/healthcare industry and reform of the national healthcare system mentioned publicness in a normative sense, which laid stress on “not-for-profit” service and the right of “universal access” to service for publicness. Articles of health/disease information or global health regarded “the population/public” as the main targets or beneficiaries of healthcare services. Occasionally, publicness was not related to specific concepts, being used unclearly or as a routine. The fulfillment of the specific actions or status may lead to the enhancement of publicness. However, publicness itself could not be reduced to the specific concepts suggested. The use of publicness in healthcare delivered only its normative sense without substantive meaning.
Delivery of Health Care* ; Global Health ; Korea ; Periodicals* ; Private Sector