Expanding the primary health care workforce through contracting with nongovernmental entities: the cases of Bahia and Rio de Janeiro.

CONCLUSIONS: Both cases highlight that improvements in cost and performance data will be critical for meaningful comparative evaluation of delivery arrangements in primary care. Despite the different institutional and implementation arrangements of each model, which make comparison difficult, the analysis provides important lessons for contracting out health professionals for PHC within Brazil and elsewhere. PMID: 26887693 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Rural Remote Health - Category: Rural Health Authors: Tags: Hum Resour Health Source Type: research