Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. E-mail: oslipicevic gmail. In Bosnia and Herzegovina citizens receive health care from both public and private providers. The current situation calls for a clear government policy and strategy to ensure better position and services from both parts.
This article examines how health care services are delivered, particularly with respect to relationship between public and private providers. The paper notes that the public sector is plagued by a number of weaknesses in terms of inefficiency of services provision, poorly motivated staff, prevalent dual practice of public employees, poor working conditions and geographical imbalances.
Private sector is not developing in ways that address the weaknesses of the public sector. Poorly regulated, it operates as an isolated entity, strongly profit-driven. The increasing burdens on public health care system calls for government to abandon its passive role and take action to direct growth and use potential of private sector.
The paper proposes a number of mechanisms that can be used to influence private as well as public sector, since actions directed toward one part of the system will inevitable influence the other. This report examines current challenges to the provision of health care services in FBiH, with respect to the impact of public and private providers and makes recommendations for the government of possible courses of action through possible utilization of private sector.
It also examines the current features of both public and private providers and the interface between the two. The paper presents alternative approaches the government can take towards private sector and reasons supporting recommended solution including the specific measures to be taken both on a public and private side of health services provision to best utilize potentials of both sectors. The authors outline steps that have to be taken in order to implement a recommended solution and chapter four will present conclusions and recommendations.
