"COVID-19 and Private Health: Market and Governance Failure"

An Open Access article by Dr Owain Williams has been published in Development.

In the Abstract, Dr Williams writes,

This article examines how the pandemic has produced a mass markets failure in private health services globally, particularly in the tertiary or hospital sector [...] Beyond this, I explore how market failure has been met by often chaotic governance and policy responses by states, with indications of many serious fractures in state-firm relations and the thin legitimacy of the public–private partnership model for health systems.