Question

We know that health policy making occurs at the Federal, State and local levels of government, but the private sector also adopts health policy making. Discuss some examples of private sector policy making (who specifically does this and what are some examples) and how that interacts with public policy making.

Answer 1

Private sector
The private sector is highly heterogeneous. In this briefing note,
the private sector is defined as those individuals and organizations
providing health services or products that are not owned or directly
controlled by government. The private sector can be classified into
the subcategories: for-profit and not-for-profit, formal and informal,
domestic and foreign. The subcategories represent a wide spectrum
of entities with very different attributes and purposes.

Private sector engagement(interaction between private and public sector)
Private sector engagement refers to a partnership between the
public and private sectors to achieve a specified goal.
There are three broad categories of private sector engagement:
including private actors in the development of public health policy
and the development of ownership and contracting arrangements;
influencing private sector behaviour through regulatory and
financing policy tools; and assigning “private attributes” to public
sector organizations, for example by giving them managerial
autonomy and exposing them to market forces and incentives. and
exposing them to market forces and incentives.

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