In many contexts there are a range of individuals and organisations offering healthcare services that differ widely in cost, quality and outcomes. This complexity is exacerbated by processes of healthcare commercialisation. Yet reliable information on healthcare provision is often limited, and progress to and through the healthcare system may depend on knowledge drawn from prior experiences, social networks and the providers themselves. It is in these contexts that healthcare brokerage emerges and third-party actors facilitate access to healthcare. This article presents a novel framework for studying brokerage of access to healthcare, and empirical evidence on healthcare brokerage in urban slums in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The framework c...
Purpose: This research examines how knowledge and information is managed within two care networks. W...
When a person chooses a healthcare provider, they are trading off cost, convenience, and a latent th...
The private healthcare sector in low- and middle-income countries is increasingly seen as of public ...
Background The formation of domestic and global marketplaces during the past 50 years has opened up...
Well-integrated systems are required to deliver effective healthcare services. Research suggests mis...
Many low and middle-income countries have pluralistic health systems with a variety of providers of ...
Purpose– Industrialized world-based healthcare providers are increasingly off-shoring low-end health...
The dynamics of informal health markets in marginalised regions are relevant to policy discourse in ...
Research on patients’ choice of healthcare practitioners has focussed on countries with regulated an...
The paper contributes to emergent literature on the institutional context of informal health service...
The importance of transferring healthcare research into policy and practice is widely acknowledged b...
AbstractThe dynamics of informal health markets in marginalised regions are relevant to policy disco...
This research examines how knowledge and information is managed within two care networks. We develop...
Background: Front-line health providers have a unique role as brokers (patient advocates) between th...
Transferring healthcare research into policy and practice is a messy and complex process that both p...
Purpose: This research examines how knowledge and information is managed within two care networks. W...
When a person chooses a healthcare provider, they are trading off cost, convenience, and a latent th...
The private healthcare sector in low- and middle-income countries is increasingly seen as of public ...
Background The formation of domestic and global marketplaces during the past 50 years has opened up...
Well-integrated systems are required to deliver effective healthcare services. Research suggests mis...
Many low and middle-income countries have pluralistic health systems with a variety of providers of ...
Purpose– Industrialized world-based healthcare providers are increasingly off-shoring low-end health...
The dynamics of informal health markets in marginalised regions are relevant to policy discourse in ...
Research on patients’ choice of healthcare practitioners has focussed on countries with regulated an...
The paper contributes to emergent literature on the institutional context of informal health service...
The importance of transferring healthcare research into policy and practice is widely acknowledged b...
AbstractThe dynamics of informal health markets in marginalised regions are relevant to policy disco...
This research examines how knowledge and information is managed within two care networks. We develop...
Background: Front-line health providers have a unique role as brokers (patient advocates) between th...
Transferring healthcare research into policy and practice is a messy and complex process that both p...
Purpose: This research examines how knowledge and information is managed within two care networks. W...
When a person chooses a healthcare provider, they are trading off cost, convenience, and a latent th...
The private healthcare sector in low- and middle-income countries is increasingly seen as of public ...