• Introduction: Comments on the Public/Private Sector Mix in Healthcare
• 1- United States: The Dominance of Public funding for Private Provision in the
• U.S. Healthcare System
• 2- Canada: Public and Private Interfaces in Canadian Healthcare: Health Equity and Quality
• of Healthcare Services Implications
• 3- Australia: Australia's Health Insurance System and Its Two-Level Hospital system ---
• a Result of Muddled and Contested Objectives
• 4- France: The Public/Private Sector Mix in France: Implications and Current Debates
• 5- Sweden: Sweden's Public/Private Sector Mix in the Financing and Delivery of Healthcare
• Services: How it Relates to Health Equity and Quality of Healthcare Services
• 6- The Netherlands: The Changing Private Sector Role in the Netherlands' Public/Private Sector Healthcare System: Some considerations of Health Equity and Quality of Care
• 7- Italy: The Public/Private Sector Mix in the Italian Healthcare System: Some Issues of Equity
• and Quality of Care
• 8- Chile and Mexico: Healthcare Commodification, Equity and Quality in Chile and Mexico
• 9- Uruguay: Examining Improvement of Mixed Healthcare Services: Equity and Quality of Healthcare Services in Uruguay
• 10- Brazil: Public/Private Mix In Healthcare --- Inequities and Issues of Quality of Care:
• The Case of Brazil
• 11- Russia: The Public/Private Mix in Healthcare in Russia: Some Impacts on Health Equity and Quality if Healthcare Services
• 12- Taiwan: Achievements and Challenges in a Single Payer System